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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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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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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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 debate on child killings.
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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 on housing plans for Wingfield informal settlement
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The GOOD Party is here to lay criminal charges against Western Cape MECs and senior officials who committed fraud by knowingly tabling falsely balanced provincial budgets in order to present a rosy picture of the province’s finances ahead of last year’s general election.
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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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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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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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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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