The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime has published the latest edition of its Western Cape Gang Monitor, which should be required reading for a Western Cape Government that is singularly failing to counter the culture of gang association and violence.
The GOOD Party supports the proposed 1.5% above-inflation rate increase to the minimum wage, which will rise from R28.79 per hour to more than R30 per hour in March 2026.
Note to editor: This speech was delivered by GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament Brett Herron during today’s Budget Adjustment debate
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The GOOD Party is deeply concerned about the protection of whistleblowers and witnesses, in the wake of the news that Marius van der Merwe was gunned down in Brakpan. Our condolences go out to his family, friends and colleagues.
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The decision by the new G20 President for the year, the United States, to unilaterally cancel South Africa’s membership is procedurally flawed and disdainful of multilateralism.
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GOOD Statement by Brett Herron GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament 4 December 2025 MEC for Finance, Minister Deidre Baartman, has delivered the Western Cape Government’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement and Adjustment Budget. The theme for the Budget Speech, “Scaling for Growth,” couldn’t camouflage a whopping R736.6 million slice taken out of the Education
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Former President Jacob Zuma’s eleventh-hour demand that Justice Sisi Khampepe be withdrawn as chairperson of the Commission investigating alleged political interference in the prosecution of apartheid era crimes compounds the very injustice the Commission was set up to probe.
Parliament’s approval of a new structure to oversee the Presidency and hold it accountable is an important handbrake on unfettered power.
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The GOOD Party applauds the conviction of Abraham Engelbrecht and Pieter Stander for the murder of anti-apartheid activist Caiphus Nyoka in 1987.
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