August 2025

SANTACO MUST LEAD IN BRINGING WARRING CAPE TAXI ASSOCIATIONS TO ORDER

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The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) must take urgent steps to extinguish the taxi war in Cape Town that reignited this week, just days after what appeared to be a constructive peace summit. Three people were shot dead and six wounded in two separate incidents, in Philippi East and Khayelitsha, this week. The Western Cape Government, which convened the peace summit, has signalled that it wants to ask the Court to issue an urgent order forcing rival taxi associations, Cata and Codeta, to settle their differences peacefully. Should they fail to do so, the province says, it will effectively shut their operations down.

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GUN-TOTING MP REVIVES SYMBOL OF COLONIAL CIVILISERS OVERPOWERING SAVAGERY

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The story of DA MP Ian Cameron, who packed a gun on a visit to Philippi, and used it when his vehicle came under attack, is deeply disturbing. First, that he felt it necessary to carry a gun in Cape Town exposes the lie in his party’s claim that Cape Town is an exceptionally well-run city. In reality, the vast majority of Capetonians live in squalid conditions, in crime-racked areas, with little hope for the future.

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BEYOND WESTERN CAPE HOUSING BACKLOGS: BREAKING NEW GROUND OR BREAKING PROMISES? 

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The name of South Africa’s national free basic housing programme “Breaking New Ground” is deeply ironic in the Western Cape. Very little “ground” has in fact been broken when it comes to affordable housing in Cape Town and across the province. According to the Minister of Infrastructure, a resident of Drakenstein has been waiting 62 years for a home. Delivery numbers remain dismal, with only 3,046 houses were built in the last financial year. At that rate, it will take over 220 years to clear the backlog.

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CAPE TOWN DOESN’T NEED PHOTO-OPS… IT NEEDS HOMES

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This government is acting less like a serious administration and more like Hollywood in a creativity crisis. Instead of producing bold, new projects, we just get endless reboots of the same tired story. This very same piece of land, Founders Garden, was announced for development in 2010 as part of the Cape Town Central City Regeneration Programme. Then it was re-announced in 2016 for social housing. And again in 2019, Cabinet approved its release. Now here we are in 2025, and suddenly we’re expected to stand, clap, and act like this is a blockbuster premiere. Why, after years of fanfare, photo-ops and recycled announcements, has there been no concrete progress on delivering homes for the people who need them?

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WESTERN CAPE, A PROVINCE THAT CARES… IF YOU ARE A RICH TOURIST

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Amid a well-documented budget crisis, the Western Cape Government, City of Cape Town, and the Border Management Authority have unveiled a new plan for tourists arrivals. Premier Alan Winde assures us that “these young women and men will not only give operations a boost, they will also serve as ambassadors for our province.” Tourism is important, visitors bring in revenue and support local businesses, but what is not explained is how government suddenly finds money to make the tourist immigration experience smoother, while ordinary South Africans’ pleas for basic services are ignored.

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WOMEN’S MONTH: ADVANCING GENDER EQUALITY AT HOME AND ABROAD

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I stand here today and recognise a reality that should give us all pause: I am one of 28 men in this provincial parliament, while only 14 of our colleagues are women. That means women make up just one third of the voices in this chamber. It is a stark reminder that even here, in the heart of our democracy, gender equality is far from achieved.

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CONFRONTING THE WESTERN CAPE’S MASS SHOOTING CRISIS – COUNTING THE DEAD IS NOT A SAFETY PLAN

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I am going to paint you a story: Two men walk into a barbershop. There are a few clients in chairs getting their hair cut, most are children. It’s a seemingly normal day, until the men open fire in the barbershop, killing four people, including three children.
All the children are under the age of thirteen, the youngest aged five. All there to assumedly get their hair cut. Now this is not some fictional story, this happened. Last year, in June, when 2 armed gunmen walked into the Mzwa barber shop on Gqrwarha Street, in Khayelitsha.

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THIS IS WHY THE RIGHT-WING AXIS IS WRONG TO WITHDRAW FROM NATIONAL CONVERSATION

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Without pragmatic discussion followed by decisive action to address colour-coded inequality, South Africa risks being led by a Robert Mugabe. If we don’t prioritise narrowing inequality and accelerate fixing social and economic exclusions and injustices inherited from our divided history, economic growth and social stability will remain pipe dreams. What is required is an introspective conversation about the nation’s soul, that does not lend itself to the populist and/or divisive rhetoric of election campaigns. It is in this spirit that the GOOD Party agreed to participate in the National Dialogue.

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TSHWANE CONTEMPT CONVICTION CONFIRMS YEARS OF DA FAILURE

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 The GOOD Party notes the High Court’s instruction that the Executive Mayor of Tshwane be sentenced to 30 days’ imprisonment, suspended for one year. This order stems from the City’s failure to comply with an October 2022 judgment directing specific work to be completed during the 2022/2023 financial year.
The Court’s 11 August finding confirms that the City is in contempt of court. During the period in question, Tshwane was governed by DA mayors Randall Williams and Cilliers Brink.

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WOMEN’S MONTH: QUARTERLY LABOUR STATS ROOT WOMEN OF COLOUR TO THE BOTTOM RUNG

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Theoretically and Constitutionally equal, but practically prejudiced and marginalised. That’s the picture of women, particularly women of colour, that emerges from South Africa’s latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey – as it has for the past 30 years.
The second quarter stats for 2025 were released yesterday, in Women’s Month. This year’s Women’s Month theme is:  Building Resilient Economies for All. While there’s nothing wrong with an aspirational theme, those groups of people regarded as second class under apartheid – including women – are rightly getting tired of waiting for material improvements to their daily lived experiences.

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