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Speech by Rosa Louw, GOOD George Municipality Councillor. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered during the George Municipality Council Meeting
The post GOOD PARTY QUESTIONS MPAC SUPPORT FOR THE R69M WRITE-OFF appeared first on For Good.
Speech by Rosa Louw, GOOD Garden Route District Municipality. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered during the Garden Route Council Meeting
The post GARDEN ROUTE DISTRICT MUNICIPALITY TABLES 2026/2027 INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT PLAN appeared first on For Good.
The commission said mismanagement, infrastructure neglect and systemic corruption to blame
Speech by Matthew Cook, GOOD National Chairperson and PR Councillor in the City of Johannesburg. *Note to Editor: This Speech was given during the 2026 State of the City Address (SOCA) Debate.
The post BEYOND THE SPEECH: THE REALITY JOHANNESBURG RESIDENTS FACE appeared first on For Good.
The recent High Court ruling against the City of Cape Town’s property-value-based fixed charges exposed serious weaknesses in the City’s tariff and revenue model when they were found unconstitutional, unlawful and invalid.
The post SIMPLE ANALYSIS EXPOSES THE FIBS IN CAPE TOWN’S TARIFF AND REVENUE MODEL appeared first on For Good.
Floods regularly devastate Lagos’s informal workers, but traders and residents have built their own systems to adapt where the state has failed.
The increasing number of active South Africans jobseekers to more than 8.1 million adults, together with sustained slow economic growth that is not projected to speed up soon, is a national crisis that is being hopelessly inadequately addressed by the R370 SRD grant.
The post STATE MUST FIND MEANS TO FIND BASIC INCOME GRANT TO MITIGATE UNEMPLOYMENT CRISIS appeared first on For Good.
The Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging) is being dishonest by claiming that allegations of raw sewage spilling into the Vaal River system are untrue and that the City Council adheres to environmental laws. Municipal Manager April Ntuli appeared briefly in the Vereeniging Magistrate’s Court today on seven charges of water pollution […]
The post Emfuleni’s denial that sewage is polluting water sources is dishonest appeared first on Freedom Front Plus.
The GOOD Party calls on the City to stop pretending that it gives a damn about redistributive and social justice, and actually do something real to narrow inequality.
The post FULL BENCH OF HIGH COURT TRIPS CAPE TOWN UP ON ITS ILLEGAL TARIFF LIES appeared first on For Good.
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) submitted a formal complaint and ultimatum to the municipal management of the ANC-controlled Thaba Chweu Local Municipality as well as to Mpumalanga’s Departments of Health and Cooperative Governance (COGTA) regarding the ongoing sewage crisis plaguing the Soli Deo Gloria Care Centre and the surrounding community in Lydenburg for more […]
The post Sewage crisis triggers medical emergencies in Thaba Chweu appeared first on Freedom Front Plus.
Tuberculosis, scabies and pellagra are spreading in the country’s severely overcrowded prisons
The ongoing water crisis affecting the Rooiwal area will be driven to a head now that the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) has stepped in. The party has undertaken to provide legal assistance to Mr Theuns Vogel, a local farmer, in order to compel the City of Tshwane to comply with a 2019 court order. […]
The post Freedom Front Plus helps drive Rooiwal water crisis to a head appeared first on Freedom Front Plus.
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) plans to assist Rooiwal farmers with instituting legal action against the Tshwane Metro Council for the ongoing collapse of the Rooiwal Waste Water Treatment Works and the Metro’s blatant disregard for existing court orders. This step follows a claim by the Mayor, Dr Nasiphi Moya, during her State of […]
The post Freedom Front Plus will assist Rooiwal farmers with legal action appeared first on Freedom Front Plus.
Informal settlements in Nyanga, Philippi and Samora Machel affected
“I want to create a better life for my children” says evicted farm woman
Young people in Bo City, Sierra Leone became youth climate leaders after turning a low-cost Climate Science Hub into a space for science-informed action.
UCT researcher says secondary poisoning of the apex predator from eating contaminated prey threatens to unbalance the Cape Peninsula ecosystem
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) today requested the Gauteng MEC for Environmental Affairs, Evan Botha, to immediately and decisively intervene in the ongoing sewerage crisis in the Mogale City Local Municipality (Krugersdorp, Magaliesburg, Muldersdrift). The situation has become progressively worse over time with serious and frequent untreated sewage spills occurring at the pump station […]
The post Mogale City sewerage crisis warrants urgent intervention appeared first on Freedom Front Plus.
The Department of Water and Sanitation has given the City 60 days from 31 March to come up with a plan
The Draft 2026/27 Budget effectively formalises a "City-as-a-Service" model, where the privilege of being a resident is increasingly defined by mandatory, high-cost subscriptions rather than actual service usage.
The post CAPE TOWN’S NEW BUDGET IS A “SUBSCRIPTION MODEL” FOR BASIC RIGHTS appeared first on For Good.
Years of systemic failures have poisoned the Klip River
The Soulbent Project has dozens of residents converting dumping sites into vegetable gardens
The Ekurhuleni Metro once again received a qualified audit opinion from the Auditor-General (AG) for the 2024/25 financial year, indicating that certain financial information cannot be verified or lacks credibility. This is the outcome even though the Metro declared a dispute with the AG and needlessly dragged out the process. It serves as a serious […]
The post Ekurhuleni’s finances in free fall appeared first on Freedom Front Plus.
Eskom’s plans to cut power to 14 indebted municipalities expose a deepening crisis in South Africa’s state-owned electricity provider.