Indigent Capetonians will be asked to cough up nearly 10% extra on their monthly bills from the City of Cape Town, detailed assessment of the budget by the GOOD Party has revealed. The deadline for public comments on the budget has passed without residents being fully informed of the tariff increases that await them.
The President must instruct his Ministers of Police and Justice to cover the reasonable legal costs of former State agents appearing as accused or key witnesses in long-delayed apartheid-era cases. Reasonable costs include the costs of defending accused persons in criminal trials and facilitating the co-operation of witnesses critical to the prosecution’s success. Reasonable costs do not include the execution of legal strategies to delay cases or abuse court processes. Such costs must be covered by the accused persons, themselves.
STATE BICKERING OVER LEGAL COSTS FURTHER DELAYS APARTHEID CASES Read More »
A presentation by Prasa to the Western Cape Provincial Parliament Standing Committee on Mobility today exposed the City of Cape Town’s alleged “plan” to take over management of the Metrorail system as theatrical bluster. The grandiose-sounding “Service Level Plan” between the City and Prasa that the Mayor of Cape Town announced with great fanfare six months ago, but never allowed anyone to see, was revealed at today’s presentation to contain no grand plan at all.
CITY OF CAPE TOWN’S “PLAN” TO MANAGE METRORAIL STUCK AT THE STATION Read More »
Nakba Day, today, commemorates the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from what was previously known as British Palestine – “the catastrophe” – to create the State of Israel on 14 May 1948. A few weeks later, thousands of kilometers away, the National Party, with its policy of apartheid, was voted into power by the White South African electorate, on 4 June 1948. Both Israel and South Africa enacted policies that stripped indigenous people of their land rights and dignity, conferring second class status on those allowed to remain and herding the rest into ethnic enclaves.
COMMEMORATING NAKBA DAY: THE ESSENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA’S SHARED HISTORY WITH PALESTINE Read More »
On the basis of their home language, historic expropriation of land without compensation, and exposure to the most extreme levels of violence in South Africa, many residents of the gang-ravaged Cape Flats should qualify for consideration by the US as potential refugees. The only reason they do not is colour.
CAPE FLATS RESIDENTS MEET ALL CRITERIA FOR U.S. REFUGEE STATUS BESIDES SKIN COLOUR Read More »
The latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey for Q1 2025 confirms what South Africans already feel in their homes and communities – unemployment is getting worse, not better. The official unemployment rate has climbed to a shocking 32.9%, up from 31.9% in Q4 2024. This translates to 8.2 million South Africans officially unemployed, with a further 3.5 million discouraged work seekers who have given up trying to find work, and 16.7 million people not economically active. In total, nearly 25 million South Africans of working age have no income to support themselves or their families.
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE RISES TO 32.9%, A BASIC INCOME GRANT IS A MORAL IMPERATIVE Read More »
The GOOD Party extends its warmest congratulations to the Catholic community on the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th Pope of the Catholic Church. Now Pope Leo XIV, he assumes the sacred responsibility of guiding over a billion faithful with full and supreme authority in matters of faith, morality, church discipline, and governance.
“PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL” Read More »
The first group of “Afrikaner refugees” are expected to land in the United States next week, the New York Times reported today. They are being granted refugee status on the basis of a web of right-wing lies that South Africa is grabbing land owned by Whites and conducting a genocide against Afrikaners. These lies have had a profoundly detrimental effect on South Africa’s relationship with the US.
FAKE REFUGEES: IMPOSE SPECIAL WEALTH TAX ON THE SALES OF THEIR FIXED PROPERTY Read More »
Between them, the Western Cape Provincial Government and the City of Cape Town have no plan to address a deeply ingrained culture of gangsterism. They regard gangsterism as a law-enforcement matter, and take no responsibility for improving the conditions in which most residents live, that breed crime.
GANGSTERS ARE WINNING CAPE TOWN’S WAR AGAINST GANGSTERISM Read More »
The families of those who tragically lost their lives in the Victoria Street building collapse in George, nearly a year ago, would have been insulted, shocked, and deeply disappointed by today’s proceedings. The Western Cape Standing Committee on Infrastructure staged a hollow performance of oversight, feigning an investigation into the cause of the tragedy.
GEORGE BUILDING COLLAPSE: SILENCE, EVASION, AND THE STAGED SHOW OF ACCOUNTABILITY Read More »