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Electoral Court dismisses DA's PR list whinge - Brett Herron
ELECTORAL COURT DISMISSES DA’S PR LIST WHINGE 30 October 2026 The Electoral Court today dismissed the DA’s accusation that GOOD, ActionSA, the EFF and MK Party had submitted unlawful proportional representation lists in bad faith. The DA claimed we had set out to subvert the law and keep voters in the dark, but the Court found no factual basis for these claims. In GOOD’s case, the Court went further.
DA being judged on it delivery record makes Cape Town election very different in 2026
Brett Herron|Published 19 minutes ago Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis faces scrutiny of the DA’s delivery record ahead of the 2026 local government election. Image: File Over the past 20 years the DA has sauntered to power in Cape Town by positioning itself as the minority-led counter to the corrupt, African nationalist ANC. Until this year, it has never been judged on its delivery record but been able to rely exclusively on the fact that it is not the ANC.
SAHRC deepens Cape Town’s housing shame - Brett Herron
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION DEEPENS CAPE TOWN’S HOUSING SHAME 28 October 2026 The South African Human Rights Commission must be commended for stepping up to block the transfer of 49 properties, including the Good Hope Centre, that the City of Cape Town sought to dispose of in February.
DA contempt for Navi Pillay mirrors Verwoerd and Botha - Brett Herron
DA CONTEMPT FOR NAVI PILLAY MIRRORS VERWOERD AND BOTHA’S RESPONSE TO PREVIOUS SOUTH AFRICAN PEACE LAUREATES 26 October 2026 DA leader Geordin Hill-Lewis has defended his party’s failure to acknowledge Navi Pillay’s achievements as South Africa’s fifth Nobel Peace prize laureate, accusing the globally feted former UN Commissioner for Human Rights and Judge of the International Criminal Court of being divisive.
Cost of Cape Town water and electricity to skyrocket over the next three years
Brett Herron|Published 9 minutes ago GOOD mayoral candidate Brett Herron. Image: FILE The City of Cape Town’s three-year budget projection reveals that in 2028/29 residents will be asked to cough up an extra 36% extra for water and 24% for electricity than they were paying a few months ago in the 2025/26 financial year. What that practically means is that R100 worth of electricity at June 2026 prices will cost R124,50 from July 2028, and R100 worth of water will cost R136.
Housing, crime and quality of life push Cape Town to LGE tipping point
Brett Herron|Published 9 hours ago GOOD Party's mayoral candidate Brett Herron. Image: Ayanda Ndamane/ ANA studio Over the past 20 years, as the country’s most extreme housing and violent crime crises have steadily evolved in Cape Town, the DA has surfed a free political wave by positioning itself as the saviour of minorities in opposition to the corrupt and incompetent ANC.
GOOD warns Cape Town not to dispose of public land during election recess
GOOD LAWYERS WARN CAPE TOWN NOT TO DISPOSE OF LAND DURING LGE RECESS 18 October 2026 The GOOD Party has put the DA-led City of Cape Town on notice not to quietly dispose of any public land during Council recess. The aim of the notice is to stop decisions being taken during the recess under delegated authority, with far less public scrutiny than usual. This is exactly when public land is most at risk.
Cape Town's dirty tariff secret revealed - Brett Herron
CAPE TOWN’S DIRTY TARIFF SECRET REVEALED… 19 October 2026 Mayor of Cape Town Geordin Hill-Lewis must come clean on the City’s court case to charge Capetonians more for electricity. The DA has not told residents about this litigation. It was revealed in a single paragraph of NERSA’s Reasons for Decision on the City’s 2026/27 tariff application, which the GOOD Party obtained through a PAIA request.
Cape Town ordered to halt Annandale land sale - Brett Herron
CAPE TOWN ORDERED TO HALT ANNANDALE LAND SALE PENDING INQUIRY 13 October 2026 Minister of Human Settlements Thembi Simelane has ordered the City of Cape Town to halt its proposed sale to a private developer of a valuable piece of land acquired nine years ago with funds meant to relieve severe congestion in Dunoon.
Unethical or unlawful? Human Settlements probes Cape Town's sale of Annandale land
Brett Herron|Published 18 minutes ago The Annandale Farm site, as shown on the City of Cape Town’s Map Viewer. Image: Screengrab The GOOD Party has asked the national Minister and Director-General of the Department of Human Settlements to investigate the legality of Cape Town selling land bought with funds earmarked to house the poor without building any houses. The Department has confirmed that it is probing the matter.
DA signs up with the Xenophobia Brigade - GOOD
DA ABANDONS LIBERAL PRETENCE AND SIGNS UP WITH XENOPHOBIA BRIGADE 07 October 2026 The DA’s mayoral candidate for Tshwane’s decision to lead an armed raid with private security forces to bust allegedly illegal immigrants, and then brag about it on social media, places the party in the same populist Whatsapp group as Afriforum, March and March and the MK Party.
GHL tells ConCourt of “substantial progress” but zero affordable homes - GOOD
Hill-Lewis tells ConCourt of “substantial progress” but zero affordable homes 5 October 2026 In compliance with the Constitutional Court’s order in the Tafelberg matter, the Premier of the Western Cape and the Mayor of Cape Town have filed reports under oath detailing progress (or lack thereof) in the delivery of affordable housing in well-located areas.
White Cross Project: UCT should distance itself from council members - GOOD
UCT SHOULD DISTANCE ITSELF FROM MEMBERS OF ITS COUNCIL CHEERLEADING WHITE RIGHT IN WASHINGTON DC 29 September 2026 Two of the five South Africans who addressed the White Cross Project Conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC last Friday are members of the University of Cape Town’s Council.
GOOD queries Zille’s right to stand as Joburg Mayor
GOOD OPPOSES DA’S ELECTORAL COURT BID, WHILE QUERYING HELEN ZILLE’S RIGHT TO STAND AS MAYOR OF JOHANNESBURG 25 September 2026 The GOOD Party today filed its answering affidavit opposing the DA’s application in the Electoral Court to declare its candidate list unlawful. The Party’s Proportional Representation list, with one named candidate in each of the 25 municipalities it is contesting, complied with the law and was certified by the IEC.
Right-wing SAns feeding false narrative of white persecution - Brett Herron
SELF HARM: UNDERMINING FOUNDATIONS OF SA’S PEACEFUL POST-APARTHEID SETTLEMENT WON’T SERVE MINORITIES WELL 22 September 2026 Right-wing South Africans feeding the false narrative of White persecution are strengthening the hand of populist political parties who believe the Constitution is skewed towards the protection of minority rights and property.
Cape Town: Two cities that must become one - Brett Herron
TWO CITIES THAT MUST BECOME ONE GOOD Party Manifesto Launch *Note to Editor: This speech was delivered at the GOOD party’s City of Cape Town Manifesto Launch. 19 September 2026 In Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities, London represents peace, order, safety and normality, while Paris represents chaos, disorder, abnormality – and revolution.
Animal welfare is a real crisis, but Cape Town’s draft bylaw regulates the wrong things
The City of Cape Town’s draft Animal Keeping Bylaw misdirects its regulatory efforts, targeting compliant pet owners and small groomers rather than the informal breeders driving the animal welfare crisis. Brett Herron is a founding member of the Good party, which contested the 2019 general elections just three months after its launch. He is the Good party’s secretary-general. Opinion This article is an Opinion, which presents the writer's personal point of view.
Animal welfare is a real crisis but Cape Town’s draft by-law regulates the wrong things
Brett Herron|Published 30 minutes ago Part of the City of Cape Town’s proposed animal keeping by-law addresses the handling and impounding of stray animals. Image: File South Africa has a real animal welfare crisis. Rescue Rehab SA estimates that over a million cats and dogs are euthanised annually. Seventeen SPCA branches have closed since 2018 and none have been replaced.
Fair comment to compare Ian Cameron to Rambo and Piet Retief - GOOD
COMPARING GUN-TOTING IAN CAMERON TO RAMBO AND PIET RETIEF WAS FAIR POLITICAL COMMENT 13 September 2026 On Friday, the GOOD Party received a curt letter from the Western Cape Provincial Legislature’s Appeals Committee setting aside the findings of its Conduct Committee against Brett Herron MPL relating to a statement concerning the behaviour of DA MP Ian Cameron.
Western Cape’s 754 260-household housing scandal
Brett Herron|Published 41 minutes ago The Western Cape Government delivered just 3 046 new subsidised homes in 2024/25, say the writer. Image: Sisonke Mlamla/File Two answers tabled in the Western Cape Provincial Parliament this month amount to a confession that the DA-run province and City of Cape Town don’t know the scale of the housing crisis they are meant to be managing. Let’s start with the headline number.
Adults need R868 per month for food - Brett Herron
NEW FOOD POVERTY LINE EXPOSES EXTREME SRD GRANT INADEQUACIES 4 September 2026 According to the government, adult South Africans need R868 a month (or about R29 a day) to buy enough food to meet an adult’s required daily energy intake. But the government grant for unemployed adults is just R370 a month (about R12 a day).
Wouter Basson must tell die Volk about Mandrax activities - GOOD
WOUTER BASSON MUST TELL DIE VOLK ABOUT HIS MANDRAX ACTIVITIES- WERE APARTHEID SECURITY FORCE LINKS TO GANGSTERS EVER DISMANTLED?
Don't privatise state's constitutional duties to effect social justice
Cape Times | August 24, 2026 THE DA is on a privatisation roll, dismissing its constitutional obligations to address spatial injustice, selling off well-located publicly owned properties in Cape Town, and championing the out-sourcing of basic service provision in dysfunctional municipalities.
Mark Burke must be withdrawn from Parliament’s finance oversight structures - Brett Herron
DA’s Mark Burke must be withdrawn from Parliament’s finance oversight structures – Brett Herron 18 August 2026 DA Federal Finance Chairperson, funder and MP, Mark Burke, is unfit to serve on Parliament’s Standing Committees on Finance and/or Appropriations and Public Accounts.
DA can’t privatise state’s constitutional duties to effect social justice - Brett Herron
DA can’t privatise State’s Constitutional duties to effect social justice – Brett Herron 18 August 2026 The DA is on a privatisation roll, dismissing its constitutional obligations to address spatial injustice, selling off well-located publicly owned properties in Cape Town, and championing the out-sourcing of basic service provision in dysfunctional municipalities.
Evolve Madlanga Commission into National Police Integrity Tribunal - Brett Herron
Evolve Madlanga Commission into permanent National Police Integrity Tribunal 14 August 2026 The Madlanga Commission model combining investigators, lawyers, powers to subpoena, televised proceedings and accelerated prosecutions, should be applied to alleged police/law enforcement/gangster collusion across the country – not least in gang-ravaged Cape Town.
Treasury’s anti-SRD grant appeal denies State’s Constitutional duty - Brett Herron
Treasury’s anti-SRD grant appeal denies State’s Constitutional duty 9 August 2026 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. According to Treasury an expanded SRD grant would be unaffordable. This is a disappointingly reactionary and short-sighted position.
Bridging the gap: Addressing Cape Town's housing inequality
Brett Herron|Published 1 hour ago The City might have addressed the fears by demonstrating that it is possible to develop affordable housing in good areas without reducing the good area to a slum, says the writer. Image: Supplied I don’t believe there’s anyone who is fortunate enough to live in relatively affluent suburbs in Cape Town who wouldn’t like to see living conditions on the Cape Flats improved, inequality reduced, and past divisions laid to rest.
Constitutional Court exposes Cape Town’s empty affordable housing promises
This article is an Opinion, which presents the writer’s personal point of view. The views expressed are those of the author/authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Daily Maverick. While officials spin tales of progress, an apex court ruling highlights Cape Town’s lack of inner-city housing delivery over the last eight years. Brett Herron is a founding member of the Good party, which contested the 2019 general elections just three months after its launch.
Hypocrisy: Western Cape Returns R821m to Treasury While Blaming Housing Failures on Under-Funding
Brett Herron|Published 8 minutes ago The Western Cape MEC for Infrastructure blames national government for housing delivery failures while overlooking the province's own R821m funding forfeiture. Brett Herron delves into the hypocrisy behind the claims and the pressing housing crisis affecting thousands.
Undeveloped District Six is a monument to an uncaring state - Brett Herron
Undeveloped District Six is a monument to an uncaring state – at all levels 16 June 2026 Sixty years after District Six was declared a “whites only” area, followed by the catastrophic forced removal of 60,000 people, mostly to the Cape Flats, the process of restitution and redress is making painfully slow progress. The barren area today stands as a grotesque monument to the evil of the apartheid government, and its policy of separate development.
Cape Town must cancel Good Hope Centre sale - Brett Herron
Four months later…Cape Town must swallow its pride and cancel Good Hope Centre sale 12 June 2026 The City of Cape Town must stop hiding behind its alleged Good Hope Centre auction review process, swallow its pride, cancel the ridiculously inappropriate sale, pay whatever penalties are due, and publicly commit to using the precinct as a mixed-use development including affordable housing.
Xenophobic violence turns deadly in the WCape - Brett Herron
Blame, borders and breaking points: Xenophobic violence turns deadly in the Western Cape 3 June 2026 Millions of South Africans are justifiably angry about the poor quality of their lives, the slow progress of post-apartheid redress, and the injustice of deepening inequality. According to the World Bank, South Africa is the most unequal country in the world. When people can’t find jobs, and live in squalor, they are left feeling that they have nothing left to lose.
Operation Prosper soldiers living in POW like conditions - Brett Herron
OPERATION PROSPER: LEAVING SOLDIERS LIVING LIKE PRISONERS OF WAR 27 May 2026 When Operation Prosper was deployed in April, there were concerns about possible human rights abuses against civilians, particularly around the risks of militarising civilian spaces. But what is now emerging raises a different and deeply uncomfortable question: what about the human rights of the soldiers themselves?
Immigrants not to blame for SA's ills - Brett Herron
IMMIGRANTS NOT TO BLAME FOR SOUTH AFRICANS’ SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SUFFERING 26 May 2026 Blaming African immigrants and refugees for South Africa’s poverty, unemployment and tardy implementation of post-apartheid redress is untrue, morally bankrupt, and a dog-whistle for public violence. Nobody will benefit from another bout of xenophobic-driven looting and savagery such as that of 2008, which claimed 62 lives.
DA en Solidariteit’s choreographed resistance to redress - Brett Herron
DA & Solidariteit’s choreographed resistance to redress – Brett Herron 18 May 2026 The DA-led City of Cape Town and Western Cape Provincial Government are challenging the validity of the Public Procurement Act in the Constitutional Court today.
Unemployment: State must find means to fund BIG - Brett Herron
State must find means to fund Basic Income Grant to mitigate unemployment crisis 12 May 2026 The increasing number of active South Africans jobseekers to more than 8.1 million adults, together with sustained slow economic growth that is not projected to speed up soon, is a national crisis that is being hopelessly inadequately addressed by the R370 SRD grant.
Phala Phala: Time to clear up the mystery - Brett Herron
Phala Phala: Time to clear up the mystery 8 May 2026 Several institutions have investigated aspects of the pile of Phala Phala cash, its alleged theft, and subsequent events, and have cleared the President of wrongdoing, including the Public Protector, the South African Reserve Bank, and the NPA. Although the President has been cleared, the investigations have technically left ordinary South Africans without a clearly understandable version of events.
City of Cape Town must return tariff over-charges to residents - Brett Herron
City of Cape Town must return tariff over-charges to residents 4 May 2026 The GOOD Party is procuring legal advice on the appropriate next steps to force the City of Cape Town to comply with last week’s Western Cape High Court finding that its fixed tariff regime is unlawful – and return over-charges to residents.
Full bench of High Court trips Cape Town up on its illegal tariff lies - Brett Herron
Full bench of High Court trips Cape Town up on its illegal tariff lies 30 April 2026 The GOOD Party calls on the DA-led City to stop pretending that it gives a damn about redistributive and social justice, and actually do something real to narrow inequality. The call follows today’s Cape Town High Court judgement declaring the City’s fixed cleaning, water and sanitation charges unlawful.
City Cape Town can't auction its responsibility to build an integrated City
Brett Herron|Published 5 minutes ago The auction of Good Hope Centre has sparked controversy over public asset management in Cape Town. The recent sale of R135m sale must still obtain statutory approval, says the writer. Image: Armand Hough / Independent Newspapers On the one hand, the City of Cape Town argues there’s a shortage of suitable land on which to build affordable homes in good neighbourhoods – which is why it has yet to build any such housing.
South Africa: Gangs Are a Symptom of a Disease the Army Is Unqualified to Treat
Sending soldiers into the Cape Flats is like putting a plaster on a gunshot wound. Every time the crisis becomes too visible to ignore, the state reaches for the same blunt instrument conclusion: militarisation. This is not real peace. It is a temporary pause. Once again, soldiers are being sent into the Cape Flats. Once again, armoured vehicles roll through working-class neighbourhoods. Once again, politicians promise that this time, things will be different.
The N2 Hell Run: a call for housing, not walls
Brett Herron|Published 1 hour ago GOOD member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, Brett Herron. Image: Ayanda Ndamane/Independent Newspapers Brett Herron, Good Party secretary-general For decades, the short stretch of the N2 freeway across the Cape Flats and past the airport has been known as the “Hell Run” due to incidents of stoning and attacks on passing motorists.
Former presidents must explain TRC non-prosecutions
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Lessons from New York for SA's local government elections
Brett Herron|Published 1 hour ago In New York, Zohran Mamdani, aged just 34, is a self-described socialist who was virtually unknown before his upset victory to secure the Democratic nomination. Image: Madison Stewart/Zohran Mamdani Website Zohran Mamdani’s stunning ascension to the Mayorship of New York has captured the imagination of believers in social justice across the world, not least at the southern tip of Africa, where he spent some of his formative years.
Ending insecurity, mistrust starts with narrowing inequality
Cape Times | November 07, 2025 THE vast majority of South Africans are not extremists, racists, xenophobes or cultural separatists. THE values in the Constitution are a package deal. You cannot protect minority and BELA, NHI and EWC propose, without dragging the country back into its past, says the writer. | ITUMELENG ENGLISH Independent Newspapers (ITUMELENG ENGLISH Independent Newspapers) They are not Coloured or Zulu or Afrikaner nationalists, nor Black or White supremacists.
BRETT HERRON: Cele and Lamola knew AmaPanyaza and Leap were illegal, but did nothing
Former police and justice ministers Bheki Cele and Ronald Lamola knew several years ago that Gauteng’s “Crime Prevention Wardens” and the Western Cape’s “Law Enforcement Advancement Plan” (Leap) officers were operating illegally, but did nothing to stop them. Last week Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi announced that his government would disband its controversial “AmaPanyaza” so that members could undergo training to become provincial traffic officers.
Cape social house ring-a-roses: Announcements on repeat, still no homes
Brett Herron|Published 4 minutes ago The Western Cape Premier re-announced the site next to the Artscape Theatre, first unveiled in 2010 as part of the Central City Regeneration Programme, says the writer. Image: Unsplash Over the past 15 years, at least 20 sites in the Cape Town inner city have been identified, proposed, planned, announced, postponed, cancelled and re-announced, and re-announced, again for affordable and social housing.
BRETT HERRON: What the DA withdrawal from the national dialogue really signals
Political analysts and journalists have churned out thousands of column inches describing divisions in the ANC over its continuing tolerance of the DA as a partner in the government of national unity (GNU), while differences of opinion within the DA over its continued participation in government have been studiously ignored.
Meyiwa trial judge offside
OPINION Brett Herron|Published 13 minutes ago It is deeply concerning that Judge Ratha Mokgoatlheng, presiding over the high-profile Senzo Meyiwa murder trial, made a racially charged remark broadcast live, says the writer. Image: Simphiwe Mbokazi Independent Newspapers In a country still navigating the painful legacy of racial division, those entrusted with upholding the Constitution must be held to the highest standards of impartiality, professionalism, and respect.
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