CAPE TOWN

CAPE TOWN’S UNEQUAL SAFETY CRISIS: RED CARPET FOR VISITORS, BODY BAGS FOR COMMUNITIES

/ GOOD Statement / By

Families on the Cape Flats deserve the same security, dignity, and protection afforded to tourists and those in the City’s wealthier neighbourhoods. Until government invests in the people who live here every day of the year, not only those who visit briefly, Cape Town cannot claim to be a world-class city. The GOOD Party wants every tourist to enjoy a safe holiday in Cape Town. Tourism is vital to our economy; it creates jobs and supports local businesses. But a truly safe tourism season requires more than another branded enforcement unit and photo-op. It demands investment in the physical and socio-economic living conditions of the people who call this city home, especially those pushed to its margins by geography and inequality.

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PHILIPPI MASS SHOOTING CONFIRMS THE CAPE FLATS REMAIN UNDER SIEGE – SPATIAL AND SOCIAL REDRESS IS URGENT

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The GOOD Party extends heartfelt condolences to the families who lost loved ones and to the communities living under constant siege of violence. Reports of yet another mass shooting in Philippi on Friday night, claiming seven lives, confirm that many communities on the Cape Flats are living in what can only be described as a war zone. Violent crime and gang warfare continue to claim lives indiscriminately, leaving families traumatised and neighbourhoods terrorised.

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GOOD PARTY JOINS LEGAL CHALLENGE AGAINST CAPE TOWN TARIFFS AS MAYOR DISMISSES 1400% BILL HIKES FOR FISHERS

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The GOOD Party has applied to join the South African Property Owners Association’s litigation to have elements of Cape Town’s new tariff regime declared unconstitutional as an intervening party. This follows the City opposing, on vexingly hypocritical grounds, GOOD’s application to join the action as a Friend of the Court. According to Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, opposition parties should fight their political battles in government chambers, not in the courts – despite his party being serial litigants against democratically endorsed rules and regulations of government.

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CLEAN ON PAPER, CORRUPT IN PRACTICE: CITY OF CAPE TOWN RAIDS

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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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CAPE TOWN RAIDS EXPOSE CRACKS IN DA’S CLEAN GOVERNANCE CLAIMS

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The GOOD Party welcomes any effort to root out corruption and safeguard public resources. We commend the South African Police Service’s Commercial Crime Investigation Unit for its coordinated search and seizure operation targeting alleged municipal procurement irregularities in the City of Cape Town. The scale of the operation is a stark indicator of the seriousness of the allegations.

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THE SAFETY PLAN HAS FAILED: YOU CANNOT ARREST AWAY INEQUALITY

/ GOOD Speech / By

 The Western Cape has been gripped by violent crime that tears through communities, destabilises families, overwhelms clinics, and threatens schools.
But crime does not fall from the sky.
Let’s begin with the roots.
The blood on our streets is not about “bad people making bad choices.”
It is apartheid’s spatial planning. Entire communities dumped on the margins. Overcrowded. Stripped of opportunity. Trapped in poverty.
And this government? They have not fixed it. They’ve made it worse.

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POLICING, ON ITS OWN, WILL NEVER STOP WESTERN CAPE GANGSTERISM

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A recent surge in the number of gang-related crimes led to a flurry of pronouncements by top police brass this week, including an admission by the Acting Minister that the police had no coherent plan to stop it. What was strikingly absent was any discussion about addressing dysfunctional social environments; about the roles the Departments of Social Development, Education and Sport, the City of Cape Town and Western Cape Province should be playing to fix the fabric of communities.

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SANTACO MUST LEAD IN BRINGING WARRING CAPE TAXI ASSOCIATIONS TO ORDER

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The South African National Taxi Council (Santaco) must take urgent steps to extinguish the taxi war in Cape Town that reignited this week, just days after what appeared to be a constructive peace summit. Three people were shot dead and six wounded in two separate incidents, in Philippi East and Khayelitsha, this week. The Western Cape Government, which convened the peace summit, has signalled that it wants to ask the Court to issue an urgent order forcing rival taxi associations, Cata and Codeta, to settle their differences peacefully. Should they fail to do so, the province says, it will effectively shut their operations down.

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GUN-TOTING MP REVIVES SYMBOL OF COLONIAL CIVILISERS OVERPOWERING SAVAGERY

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The story of DA MP Ian Cameron, who packed a gun on a visit to Philippi, and used it when his vehicle came under attack, is deeply disturbing. First, that he felt it necessary to carry a gun in Cape Town exposes the lie in his party’s claim that Cape Town is an exceptionally well-run city. In reality, the vast majority of Capetonians live in squalid conditions, in crime-racked areas, with little hope for the future.

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TAFELBERG SCHOOL SITE: STILL AT LEAST A DECADE OF WAITING FOR SOCIAL HOUSING

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After years of struggle and public pressure, there are encouraging signs that the Western Cape Government (WCG) is finally listening. At a follow-up public meeting held in Sea Point last night, consultants appointed by the WCG presented revised concept proposals for the redevelopment of the Tafelberg School site, now quietly renamed “353-on-Main.” These new plans reflect a shift in response to public calls for more social and affordable housing.

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