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Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered during the Sitting of the House today in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament
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Nine people live in one room
Over the past 20 years, the City of Cape Town’s housing delivery has steadily declined from an average of about 9,000 units to approximately 5,000 per year, while the housing backlog has surged to roughly 600,000 units.
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The Western Cape Government wastes Billions of Rands on a meaningless Safety Plan instead of discharging its responsibilities to oversee the transformation of apartheid-imposed conditions of hopelessness on the Cape Flats, where a large proportion of the province’s citizens live.
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Western Cape Premier Alan Winde has walked back his recent descriptions of a robust public participation process informing the province’s Safety Plan, confessing in a written reply to parliamentary questions that the consultations he’d referred to “were not publicly advertised”.
The post WESTERN CAPE SAFETY PLAN: PHONY PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AVOIDS ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SPIRALING CRIME appeared first on For Good.
The self-proclaimed Khoisan settlement has grown to between 15,000 and 20,000 people despite a 2021 interdict
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) has referred the Stellenbosch Local Municipality’s alleged unlawful approval of municipal property leases to the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) for a comprehensive and independent investigation. While the party notes the Western Cape government’s preliminary provincial investigation, the Freedom Front Plus believes that only an independent SIU investigation will provide […]
The post VF Plus verwys Stellenbosch se onreëlmatige eiendomsverhurings na die SOE appeared first on Freedom Front Plus.
A heritage assessment was rejected but the Western Cape Government will appeal
Homes were searched for firearms in Beacon Valley
Research suggests a shift to electric mobility is technically and economically feasible.
With nearly one in five households being food insecure, activists call for urgent action
Judge praises staff at Red Cross Hospital
When the Western Cape Government promised in 2012 to upgrade the hospital serving one of Cape Town’s most underserved and violent crime-ridden areas, then Health MEC Theuns Botha said: “The GF Jooste Hospital will be rebuilt on its present site between 2013 and 2016.”
The post GF JOOSTE HOSPITAL: DA PROMISED TO REBUILD BY 2016, BUT NOT A SINGLE BRICK LAID appeared first on For Good.
The deployment is expected to last until 31 March 2027
Speaker of Theewaterskloof Municipality, Weldon Wells, and his family have been warned that if he does not step down from his position, they will be murdered.
The post THEEWATERSKLOOF SPEAKER AND FAMILY RECEIVE DEATH THREAT: POLITICAL PARTIES MUST REIGN IN THEIR MEMBERS AS TOUGH ELECTION LOOMS appeared first on For Good.
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) in the Garden Route condemns the brutal double murder of an elderly couple on a farm in Glen Loerie, The Crags, near Plettenberg Bay. The murder of the 71-year-old woman and 77-year-old man is a tragic example of the growing level of violence and brutality affecting rural communities, which […]
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The decision made by the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources (DMPR) and the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment (DFFE) to allow Total Energies to explore offshore drilling along the West Coast is a ticking time bomb for not only our already fragile environment but also the livelihoods of thousands of fishermen.
The post TOTAL’S OFFSHORE DRILLING RISKS THOUSANDS OF LIVELIHOODS appeared first on For Good.
According to an emailed “request” from the (DA) Mayor of Theewaterskloof to the Municipal Manager, copied to the (GOOD Party) Deputy Mayor, the council no longer wants to attend to water or sewerage leaks outside of office hours.
The post “GAAN KAK”: TWK MAYOR SAYS AFTER-HOURS SEWERAGE LEAKS CAN WAIT TILL TOMORROW appeared first on For Good.
Small-scale fishers want the company’s environmental authorisation set aside
This budget rightly recognises that economic growth depends on how efficiently we move people and goods.
We see this in the allocations before us: for example, over R270 million for the George Integrated Public Transport Network.
The post MOBILITY BUDGET REFLECTS A GOVERNMENT THAT CALLS FOR POWER BUT FAILS TO USE IT appeared first on For Good.
Speech by Brett Herron, Unite for Change Leadership Council Member & GOOD member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament. Note to editors, this speech was delivered during the Infrastructure Department budget vote in the Western Cape Provincial Legislature
The post THE HOUSING MIRAGE: PROVINCIAL BUDGET LEAVES SOCIAL HOUSING PIPELINE STALLED appeared first on For Good.
Her poem I’ve Come to Take You Home was written into French law. It deals with the repatriation of the remains of Sarah Baartman.
As we mark Human Rights Day, the Western Cape Education Department (WCED) is failing the community of St Helena Bay by denying our children their fundamental Right to Education.
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