GOOD Statement

DA SPOKESPERSON CONFIRMS: ISRAEL TRIP VIOLATED PARTY POLICY

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The DA has acknowledged that its MPs who travelled to Israel to whitewash the genocidal actions of the Israeli Defense Force should be disciplined. During a Democracy Unplugged podcast hosted by Podcast Party SA last night, Democratic Alliance National Spokesperson Karabo Khakhau made a startling, and important, claim: the DA did not approve the recent trip to Israel by its MPs, and, in her words, “you can’t go there and pretend you’re not an MP.” Khakhau went further, acknowledging that the DA should take disciplinary action against the parliamentarians who joined the controversial delegation.

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DEVOLUTION ISN’T A CURE, IT’S A DISTRACTION

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The Western Cape Government has once again turned to its favourite scapegoat, National Government, calling for the devolution of policing powers as if that alone will put an end to the bloodshed on our streets. This latest call comes in the wake of another tragic quarter of crime data that paints a clear picture that the gangsters remain in charge, and the Western Cape Government is still out of ideas. From January to March 2025, 1,068 people were murdered in the Western Cape. While the province recorded a 4% decline from the same quarter last year, it shows that 81% of all murders in the province occur within the City of Cape Town alone.

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TREASURY’S PUNITIVE SOCIAL GRANT CONDITIONS AN ATTACK ON THE POOR

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The GOOD Party is deeply concerned by the National Treasury’s imposition of punitive and exclusionary conditions on the 2025/26 operating budget of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). These conditions effectively extend the flawed administrative procedures of the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant to long-standing grants such as the Child Support Grant, Disability Grant, Care Dependency Grant, and Older Persons’ Grant.

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DA RESPONSE TO RUPERT ABROGATES RESPONSIBILITY FOR WESTERN CAPE GANGSTERISM

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The DA has outrageously washed its hands of responsibility for transforming the culture of gangsterism in the Western Cape until it is given control of the police. The party has been running the governments of Cape Town and the Western Cape for nearly two decades, more than long enough to implement its policies and programmes, but it takes no responsibility for gangsterism, which it blames solely on incompetent national policing.

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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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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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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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RAMAPHOSA IN WASHINGTON: TIME FOR DIPLOMACY OVER DISINFORMATION

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On Wednesday, President Ramaphosa will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, D.C. This visit presents an important opportunity to reset the strategic relationship between South Africa and the United States. At a time of heightened geopolitical and economic turbulence, it is vital that official relations be underpinned by mutual respect, open dialogue, and the facts.

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BUDGET 3.0: FIX THE PROCESS, NOT JUST THE NUMBERS

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As Minister Enoch Godongwana prepares to table the third version of the Budget, in as many months, it is time to acknowledge that the problem is no longer just about what’s in or out of the budget. The deeper issue is how the budget is built in the first place. The process has been chaotic and exclusionary, exposing how ill-suited the current budget-making framework is for a Government of National Unity (GNU). We urgently need new, inclusive protocols and decision-making structures fit for a coalition era. A GNU requires coordination, consultation, and compromise – not ambushes and ultimatums.

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