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Fish Hoek’s Water Infrastructure Problem Is Critical and Life-Threatening

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The ongoing water infrastructure problem in Fish Hoek, caused by crumbling systems, has reached critical proportions, with major leaks occurring almost daily and leading to the formation of sinkholes and potholes. A large sinkhole that formed on Wednesday evening in the busy Corsair Street in Sun Valley, Fish Hoek, already caused injuries when two vehicles […]

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Fraudulent Scheme Registering 18-Year-Olds for SRD Grants Bust

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GOOD Statement by Brett Herron,GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament 23 July 2025 The GOOD Party has asked SASSA and the Hawks to shut down a fraudulent scheme in which hundreds of Worcester and Rawsonville residents, mostly18-year-olds, are being registered for the R370 a month poverty grant without their knowledge or receiving […]

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Support for SOPOA’s Legal Action Against City of Cape Town

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The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) wholeheartedly supports the legal action taken by SAPOA (The South African Property Owners Association) against the City of Cape Town for excessive tariff hikes. SOPOA filed an urgent application with the Western Cape High Court to review and set aside three tariffs implemented by the City of Cape Town […]

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Cape Town’s Budget Is Politically Convenient and Financially Punitive

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GOOD Statement by Brett Herron,GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament 17 July 2025 Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis’s attempt to paint critics of the City’s 2025/26 budget as enemies of the poor is disingenuous and misleading. His attack on the South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA) for challenging the legality of linking […]

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Inclusionary Housing Policy, We Need More Than Approval – We Need Delivery

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GOOD Statement by Marius van Stade,GOOD Stellenbosch Municipality Councillor 16 July 2025 The GOOD Party joins the Stellenbosch Municipality in celebrating the approval of more than 900 inclusionary housing units under its pioneering zoning by-law. It is a notable milestone but we remain cautious. Policy approval is one thing. Delivering homes that are truly affordable […]

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Four Dead in Bishop Lavis

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The Cape Flats was rocked by yet another mass murder on Friday night. Four adults were gunned down inside a home in Bishop Lavis. By Saturday morning, life had moved on. No heightened police presence. No wall-to-wall media coverage. No outrage. In the Cape Flats, violence has become so normalised that mass murder is met with a collective shrug from government and society alike.

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State Must Stop Pussyfooting Around Health Care Vigilantes

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GOOD Statement by Brett Herron,GOOD Secretary-General 09 July 2025 The State must send an unequivocal message to the xenophobes blocking access by foreign nationals to health care facilities in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal that people engaging in vigilantism will be arrested and prosecuted. South Africans have every right to demand that the State uses the country’s […]

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R562 Million Later – No Permanent WCED Head Office, No Inner-City Housing, and No Accountability

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The Western Cape Government has spent over half a billion rand on office space for the Western Cape Education Department (WCED),yet it still has no permanent headquarters. This alarming misuse of public funds was revealed in written responses to GOOD by current Infrastructure MEC Tertuis Simmers and former MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela, following parliamentary questions submitted in November 2020, and again in April and June 2025.

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A Ticking Time Bomb Waiting to Explode

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The GOOD Party is calling for an immediate investigation into the management of social housing facilities across Cape Town, following mounting complaints from tenants, growing public outcry, and ongoing government inaction.
Over the past month, we have received repeated complaints from tenants living in DCI Social Housing in Goodwood, and other facilities like Conradie Park in Thornton. These complaints have included exorbitant utility charges, inhumane visitation rules, and broken promises by the housing provider.

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Minister Macpherson Must Release the George Building Collapse CBE Report Without Further Delay

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GOOD Statement by Chantelle Kyd,GOOD George Councillor 06 July 2025 Two months ago today, at the memorial service for the victims of the George building collapse, Public Works & Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson stood before grieving families and pledged to return to personally brief them on the findings of the Council for the Built Environment […]

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R9 Million Spent to Fight Tafelberg Spatial Justice

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GOOD Statement by Brett Herron,GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament 05 July 2025 Over the past decade, the Western Cape Government has spent more than R9 million in public funds on the Tafelberg site, now rebranded as “353-on-Main.” Of this, R7.5 million was spent fighting litigation brought by civil society organisations demanding […]

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Criminal Charges Laid in Corruption Scandal

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GOOD Statement by Rosa Louw ,GOOD George Municipality Councillor 03 July 2025 The GOOD Party confirms that criminal charges against the DA’s Dirk Wessels and Marlene Barnardt were laid at the George Police Station on Tuesday. The case has been registered under reference number CAS 31/7/2025. This follows damning findings, by an external investigation, detailed […]

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Cape Town’s Deepening Crisis

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GOOD Statement by Brett Herron,GOOD Secretary-General 01 July 2025 Gun violence continues to plague the Western Cape, and the City of Cape Town remains disturbingly unprepared, and seemingly unwilling, to confront the root causes of the crisis. In June, seven people were gunned down in a mass shooting at a home in the Kanana Informal […]

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