November 2025 - Brett Herron

HERRON: “LAND & BUILDING OCCUPATIONS: TWO-TRACK SYSTEM PROTECTS HISTORIC INEQUALITY”

27 November 2025 / GOOD Speech / By Brett Herron

Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to editor: This speech was delivered by GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament Brett Herron during today’s interpellation mini-debate the plan to upgrade informal settlements – which are also initially “unlawfully occupied” but refuse to plan for occupied buildings or even provide services to the occupants

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GOOD WELCOMES BOOST FOR ECD AND INFORMAL TRADE

27 November 2025 / GOOD Statement / By Brett Herron

Today, the Tshwane Department of Economic Development and Spatial Planning, under the political leadership of GOOD’s Councillor Sarah Mabotsa, has brought two important reports to Council for approval.

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PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN REQUIRES MORE THAN PROMISES, IT REQUIRES ACTION

27 November 2025 / GOOD Speech / By Brett Herron

Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to editor: This is a speech delivered in the discussion tabled by the ACDP on Procedures and interventions of the Western Cape Education Department to ensure the safety of teachers, learners, and school environments in cases involving learners affected by substance use.

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MATLALA LAST DITCH ATTEMPT AT POSTPONEMENT A SLAP IN THE FACE

25 November 2025 / GOOD Statement / By Brett Herron

The attempt by Vusimuzi “Cat” Matlala to postpone his testimony to the Ad Hoc Committee probing alleged police corruption should be rejected with contempt. The allegations against him are extremely serious and central to the nature of the enquiry.

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SUCCESSFUL G20 CLEANS UP AFRIKANER VICTMISATION DIRT

25 November 2025 / GOOD Statement / By Brett Herron

Among the most significant by-products of the country’s successful hosting of the G20 Leaders’ Summit was that it put the disinformation being pedalled by supremacists about “horrible things” being done to White South Africans to bed.

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SA MUST TAKE FIRMER ACTION AGAINST “VOLUNTARY MIGRATION” OF PALESTINIANS

19 November 2025 / GOOD Statement / By Brett Herron

Although the 153 Palestinians who arrived in South Africa last week were not forced aboard the mystery aircraft at gunpoint, practically speaking, they were forcibly removed by the annihilation of infrastructure in Gaza, rendering it unfit for human habitation.

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G20: PERFECT OPPORTUNITY FOR SA TO ANNOUNCE IMPLEMENTATION OF WEALTH TAX

18 November 2025 / GOOD Statement / By Brett Herron

While US President Donald Trump clearly doesn’t, most dollar millionaires in most G20 nations, including in South Africa and the US, back the principle of a special tax on their wealth as a lever to address unsustainable inequality.

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SIU PROBES RADICALLY OVERPRICED WESTERN CAPE LAND DEAL

17 November 2025 / GOOD Statement / By Brett Herron

The Western Cape Government must explain its irrational purchase of a piece of land in the Table View area for R64.4 million, when it paid just R9 million for a larger, more developable piece of land right next door.

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PREMIER’S SECRET POLICE REPORT CONTAINS NOTHING: MADLANGA COMMISSION CORRECT BODY TO PROBE GANG/POLICE COLLUSION

13 November 2025 / GOOD Statement / By Brett Herron

The only reason Western Cape Premier Alan Winde had for withholding the report that he requested from the Western Cape Police Ombudsman was that it exposed how absolutely toothless the whole exercise was.

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DA KHAKIS THE WATER AT ENVIRONMENT MINISTRY

13 November 2025 / GOOD Statement / By Brett Herron

The DA’s request to replace Minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment, Dion George, with the party’s national spokesperson, Willie Aucamp, would place custodianship of South Africa’s environment directly in the hands of the wildlife breeding, trading, and hunting lobby.

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