National Treasury’s decision to appeal a Pretoria High Court ruling ordering government to increase and expand access to the Social Relief of Distress Grant is a disgraceful denial of the State’s constitutional obligations to provide income support to destitute people.
TREASURY’S ANTI-SRD GRANT APPEAL DENIES STATE’S CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY Read More »
When the City of Cape Town announced it was disposing of the Bellville Velodrome, Africa’s only Olympic-standard indoor cycling track, it sought to placate cyclists by announcing the redevelopment of the cycling track at Vygieskraal Stadium.
BLUE LIES CAPE TOWN TOLD TO JUSTIFY DISPOSAL OF VELODROME REVEALED Read More »
Instead of drafting a short-term letting by-law designed to contribute to alleviating the crisis of unaffordability in the Cape Town housing market, the only beneficiary of the proposed by-law is the City itself, which will increase its income by charging slightly higher rates.
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis’s announcement that the City of Cape Town has declared an intergovernmental dispute with the Acting Minister of Police Professor Firoz Cachalia over Metro Police investigative powers is pure electioneering hot air.
GOVERNANCE BY PRESS RELEASE AND PANTOMIME Read More »
Last week, Western Cape MEC for Infrastructure Tertuis Simmers was at it again, making a fantabulous announcement about delivering around 12 000 new homes.
WESTERN CAPE GOVERNMENT HAS TURNED PROMISING TO BUILD HOMES INTO AN ART FORM Read More »
Lieutenant General Sizakhele Dyantyi, the man named as the new Western Cape Police Commissioner, has inherited the impossible task of curbing gangsterism in communities on which municipal and provincial authorities have effectively turned their backs.
NEW WESTERN CAPE POLICE COMMISSIONER’S MISSION IMPOSSIBLE Read More »
The rosy picture that the DA-led City of Cape Town is selling about the future provision of electricity in the City does not stand up to scrutiny.
CAPE TOWN ELECTRICITY NIRVANA? THE DEVIL’S IN THE DETAIL Read More »
The Good Party has submitted a formal complaint to the Public Protector to investigate procedural irregularities by the City of Cape Town and its Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis relating to the City’s disposal of the Good Hope Centre.
GOOD HOPE CENTRE “AUCTION” PROCESS REFERRED TO PUBLIC PROTECTOR Read More »
The highest bidder on auction for the Good Hope City in February has directly contradicted Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis’ contention in a radio interview last week that it could not come up with the money.
The killing of seven people in a pair of mass shootings on the Cape Flats on Wednesday night once again gruesomely underlines the tale of two mutually exclusive Cape Towns: One that wins global awards as among the finest places on earth, and the other where living conditions and public safety are on a par with the worst and most dangerous ghettoes in the world.
CAPE TOWN MASS KILLINGS UNDERLINE TALE OF TWO CITIES – AGAIN Read More »