Abundant hot air but no Winde of change for Western Cape spatial injustice
18 July 2019
On this Mandela Day, 25 years after President Mandela's inauguration as our first democratically elected president, we hang our heads in shame at the scant progress that has been made in transforming the souls of our towns and cities, and reversing spatial injustice.
While the GOOD Party will constructively add its shoulder to the wheel in support of provincial development initiatives announced in Premier Alan Winde's State of the Province Address, we will also stridently demand of the Premier that he brings municipalities to heel in pursuit of transforming the fabric of our urban centres - beginning with the Mother City.
I was disappointed when he criticized those who arrive late and leave early at their places of work when in the CBD. In his desire for leaders to walk the streets and understand the lived experience of our citizens, I think he needs to walk further than St George’s Mall.
If he did, he would know that the DA has stopped MyCiTi services to Khayelitsha and Mitchell’s Plain, exacerbating our public transport crisis.