Author name: Brett Herron

BOOI WALKS, BUT QUESTIONS REMAIN

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GOOD is deeply disappointed by the State’s decision to provisionally withdraw charges in the R1 billion tender fraud case involving former City of Cape Town Mayoral Committee Member Malusi Booi, alleged 28s gang boss Ralph Stanfield, his wife Nicole Johnson, and more than 20 others. The National Director of Public Prosecutions must explain why the National Prosecuting Authority appears ill-equipped or unprepared to pursue complex but crucial prosecutions involving politicians and public officials allegedly linked to organised crime. The residents of Cape Town deserve justice, not delays, deflections, or deals behind closed doors.

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MURDER HAS A FAVOURITE PLAYGROUND AND THE GANGS ARE IN CHARGE

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The numbers tell a grim story, 25,423 people lost their lives in South Africa between April 2024 and March 2025. This is a tragedy, one that policymakers can’t spin, downplay, or hide behind minor percentage decreases. In the Western Cape, where the province has robbed the education and healthcare budgets to fund a safety plan, a chilling 4,467 murders were recorded in the 2024/2025 financial year. And although this is a decrease of 1.7% from the previous financial year, it is the second-highest annual toll in the past six years. Any celebration over a marginal decrease is not just premature, it’s deeply offensive to the communities still mourning.

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SOUTH AFRICA’S MURDER CRISIS: THE NUMBERS ARE REAL, THE GENOCIDE CLAIMS ARE NOT

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The latest crime statistics, released today, close the chapter on South Africa’s 2024/2025 financial year and they paint a devastating picture. A staggering 25,423 people were murdered in just 12 months. That’s an average of 69 lives lost every single day. These are not just numbers, they are lives cut short, families shattered, communities terrorised. No spin, no minor percentage shift can obscure the scale of this tragedy. Among the many revelations in the data, one critical point stands out – the truth behind the “white genocide” myth. Of the 25,423 murders recorded nationwide, just 358 took place on agricultural land, including farms, plots, and small holdings. Only 42 of these involved individuals classified as part of the farming community, currently limited to commercial farms.

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WE CANNOT WASH OUR HANDS OF THE SILENT SUFFERING OF THE ELDERLY

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Let me paint you a picture. You work, and work hard, for fifty years. You contribute to this country, raise a family, pay your taxes, and do your part. Retirement comes, and like many South Africans, life hasn’t been easy.  You can’t afford luxury, but you’re looking for peace, safety, and dignity. So, you search for affordable elderly care. Instead, you end up in a homeless shelter, one that highlights its frail care facility. This isn’t the retirement you dreamed of, but it’s all you could afford. But that doesn’t mean you signed up for a nightmare.

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BOASTING ABOUT NUMBERS WHILE CHILDREN ARE CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE

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It is shocking, deeply shocking, that a City of Cape Town official can stand up and boast about a reduction in the number of gang-related gunshots in Hanover Park. A statistic like that, stripped of context, is meaningless. A reduction in gunfire doesn’t automatically signal safety. It could just as easily mean the assailants are getting more accurate. But what makes this even more disturbing is that we are being asked to celebrate an empty number while our children are under siege.

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METRO CLEANING TARIFF: WHAT IS THE NATURE OF AFRIFORUM’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE DA?

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Afriforum hasn’t made a peep about drastic new cleaning tariffs contained in the City of Cape Town proposed budget, but it is threatening to take the City of Tshwane to court over a similar – much lower – cleaning tariff proposal. Why is Afriforum being so hypocritical? Because Cape Town is led by the DA, with which Afriforum is in a close relationship, while the DA in Tshwane is still licking its wounds after losing power in the capital city.

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TAFELBERG SCHOOL SITE DESIGN CONCEPTS:  A MOMENT OF HOPE

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Last night, consultants for the Western Cape Government presented initial design concepts for the redevelopment of a site many of us know as the Tafelberg School site in Sea Point, although it’s now been quietly renamed “353-on-Main.” The name change might suggest a wish to move past the conflict and controversy tied to this land, a public site once earmarked for sale to private developers, despite the city’s urgent inner-city affordable housing crisis.

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WESTERN CAPE PIGS TRAVEL IN MORE LUXURY THAN FARMWORKERS

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In the soft light of early mornings and evenings in the Boland, tens of thousands of Western Cape farmworkers make their way to and from work on the back of large trucks.  Whereas, in the past, many farmworkers lived on farms, these days the overwhelming majority live in informal settlements outside rural towns, working as seasonal workers.
There are more regulations governing the transportation of pigs than farmworkers.

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RUPERT SPOKE THE TRUTH: CRIME IN THE WESTERN CAPE CAN’T BE DENIED ANYMORE

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 “The crime is terrible Sir, but Mr. Steenhuisen won’t admit it. He runs the Western Cape, where I live, and the highest murder rate is in the Cape Flats.”  These were the words spoken last night by billionaire Johan Rupert during the Trump Ramaphosa media engagement. And while Rupert may not always be the voice of the South African people, this time, he gave voice to something millions already know – the crime crisis in the Western Cape is not only real, it’s worsening.

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BUDGET 2025: PLUGS GAPS; DEFERS REAL BUDGETARY REFORMS TO NEXT YEAR

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The third iteration of Budget 2025 delivered by Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana today largely succeeds in absorbing a R69 Billion fiscal gap occasioned by dropping the proposed 0.5% VAT increase without defunding improved social and infrastructure spend altogether. To some extent it’s a holding budget to settle months of instability since the first version of the budget was rejected in March. The real work lies ahead, in eliminating waste and reforming the budget-making process.

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