October 2025

SIU RAID ON MAUMELA’S RESIDENCE A STEP TOWARD JUSTICE FOR BABITA

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This morning’s raid on the residence belonging to Hangwani Maumela indicates that while the wheels of justice turn slowly, they are turning. Maumela is a figure who allegedly orchestrated the extraction of R820 million in contracts at Tembisa Hospital, through a web of fraudulent contracts. The GOOD party commends the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), the South African Police Service, and the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) on this step towards ensuring accountability for the mass looting of Tembisa Hospital.

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GOOD PARTY JOINS LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST CAPE TOWN TARIFFS AS MAYOR DISMISSES 1400% BILL HIKES FOR FISHERS

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The GOOD Party has applied to join the South African Property Owners Association’s litigation to have elements of Cape Town’s new tariff regime declared unconstitutional as an intervening party. This follows the City opposing, on vexingly hypocritical grounds, GOOD’s application to join the action as a Friend of the Court. According to Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, opposition parties should fight their political battles in government chambers, not in the courts – despite his party being serial litigants against democratically endorsed rules and regulations of government.

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7 OCTOBER ATTACK: CEASEFIRE WOULD BEST HONOUR DEAD ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS

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Today marks the second anniversary of Hamas’ deadly incursion of Israel that claimed 1200 lives and saw 250 Israelis taken hostage – 20 of whom are still believed to be alive.

In the two years since the attack, the Israeli Defense Force has flattened much of the infrastructure in Gaza, killed more than 64000 Palestinians, and imposed a blockade that has denied Gazans access to food, water and medical treatment. Israel’s vengeance has been characterized by many, including South Africa’s government, as genocide.

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THE PRICE OF ANTI-POOR POLITICS: 20 YEARS, NO SOCIAL HOUSING

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I have been attending the public engagements on the planning process for the packaging of the Tafelberg School site for a housing and commercial development. The most recent presentation of the 353-on-Main project, as it is now called, made it clear that if all goes according to schedule the planning applications required to build this development would only commence in March 2026.
If we are optimistic, it will be 2030 before we see a resident move into social housing on that site. This means that it would have taken this government 20 years from when the site first became identified for social housing ‘til when that social housing is actually delivered. We know that 20 years is as a direct result of dogmatic anti-poor ideology that dominates the Democratic Alliance leadership.

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THE FIRST PEOPLES, STILL WAITING FOR RECOGNITION

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One of the strongest reasons to support the Traditional Leaders and Khoisan Act of 2019 is that it finally creates a pathway for representation for Khoi and San leaders, particularly here in the Western Cape. Until now, our province has had no formal voice in the National House of Traditional Leaders, because traditional leadership here was never recognised under the old legal framework.
This absence has meant that the Khoi and the San, the first peoples of this land, were excluded from national decision-making structures that directly affect traditional communities elsewhere in the country.

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CLEAN ON PAPER, CORRUPT IN PRACTICE: CITY OF CAPE TOWN RAIDS

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Late on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning, police raids were carried out, and at the heart of the raids was the City of Cape Town. This is a sobering reminder that while this government never misses an opportunity to boast about being “better than everyone else,” the truth may be that they are simply better at hiding.
Because when SAPS arrives with warrants linked to tender fraud on the scale of R1.6 billion, we are compelled to ask: how did the City manage to have all these so-called “clean audits”? What lies beneath the glossy reports, if billions of rands of public money are under investigation?

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FROM SAFETY PLAN TO SAFETY SHAM

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That is nearly three murders every single day. Or, to put it plainly: one gang-related killing every eight hours. We cannot allow ourselves to grow numb to these numbers.
They are not abstract. They represent lives lost, families torn apart, and communities living under siege.
Yet, yesterday, when I sat down to hear the so-called review of the Safety Plan, I did not hear urgency. I did not hear honesty. I did not hear accountability.  The review we were promised did not happen. It was a disgrace. A profound letdown. A review, by definition, means assessing whether a plan has worked, what has failed, and what must change.  It means testing claims against evidence, admitting shortcomings, and facing hard truths.

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 AID IS NOT A CRIME: RELEASE THE GAZA FLOTILLA ACTIVISTS NOW

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The GOOD Party heeds the call by Mandla Mandela urging the South African government to “call for the immediate release” of international activists detained by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF). Mandela issued this plea from aboard the Alma, part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, before the vessel was intercepted while attempting to break Israel’s inhumane siege on Gaza and deliver much-needed aid.

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CAPE TOWN RAIDS EXPOSE CRACKS IN DA’S CLEAN GOVERNANCE CLAIMS

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The GOOD Party welcomes any effort to root out corruption and safeguard public resources. We commend the South African Police Service’s Commercial Crime Investigation Unit for its coordinated search and seizure operation targeting alleged municipal procurement irregularities in the City of Cape Town. The scale of the operation is a stark indicator of the seriousness of the allegations.

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