GOOD Statement by Brett Herron, Unite for Change Leadership Council Member & GOOD member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament:
The City of Cape Town and Western Cape Provincial Government must be called out for repeatedly recycling announcements about proposed affordable housing developments in well-located areas of the city without actually delivering any homes.
On Wednesday, it was the Prestwich Street precinct’s turn again (it was first announced for development 14 years ago). Prestwich Street confirms a well-established City/Province trend.
The proposed Pine Road project, (first announced in 2011); Pickwick and Newmarket, (announced in 2017 and reannounced in 2025); Roeland Street (announced in 2017, relaunched 2022, and reannounced 2025), Salt River Market (announced in 2018), and recently announced sites like Founders Garden and Leeuloop Precinct… So much hot air but zero homes built.
Packaging land releases and/or the identification of suitable land as “progress” is a fraud. Releasing land without Social Housing Regulatory Authority funding, a meaningful allocation from the Provincial Equitable Share, or credible implementation plans, has predictable results: The land remains unused while the housing backlog grows.
It’s reached a point of ridiculousness that has Government diverting funds away from infrastructure delivery to guard vacant land it has yet to develop – and then blaming its non-delivery of housing on the fact that it’s spending too much money on guarding.
This is not delivery but a cycle of delay.
GOOD Manifesto on Economic Inclusion: Ensuring all South Africans can participate in the economy.
Club Nola
So I\’m real good friends with this guy named Juan Ted. Now, Juan is a pretty astonishing guy. He can steal ANYTHING he wants to. Literally anything. It could be the shirt off your back, the wallet in your pocket, or I\’m even sure he\’d find a way to steal your house (And your spouse too). So anyway, one day Juan and I are sitting around watching TV, and they announced that the hope diamond will not be on display anymore and is now getting moved to an undisclosed location. So as we hear this, Juan says \”I\’m gonna steal it\”. Now I know how good Juan is at this kind of stuff, so I just tell him good luck and he goes on his way. Eventually he narrows his search down to a small cave in South Africa. When Juan gets there, he doesn\’t see any guards or anything outside the cave, so he just walks in assuming he was wrong about where the diamond was. He wanders around for a while until he sees a long lit hallway with the hope diamond at the end of it. Confident in his abilities, he strolls over to the diamond and picks it up before realizing its a trap! Suddenly, red lights flashed, armed men came running out, sirens went off. You could hear one of the men say under his breath \”We finally caught Juan Ted.\” But Juan, being the best thief in the world, said \”Not quite. On the count of three, I will disappear.\” As the men looked around confused, Juan began to count. \”Uno. Dos.\” And he disappeared without a tres.
Pecan Oblivion
A Priest was seated next to Van Der Merwe on a flight to Brakpan.
After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken.
Van Der Merwe asked for a Rum and Coke, which was brought and placed before him.
The flight attendant then asked the priest if he would like a drink.
He replied in disgust \”I\’d rather be savagely raped by a dozen whores than let liquor touch my lips.\”
Van Der Merwe then handed his drink back to the attendant and said \”Me too, I didn\’t know we had a choice.\”