GOOD takes six Cape Town pledges to Athlone as November 4 poll nears
The party that won nine council seats in 2021 returns to the Cape Flats to set out what it would do with the city.
GOOD launches its Cape Town manifesto in Athlone on Saturday, and the party has already said what the centrepiece will be: six pledges for the city, put to voters five weeks before the November 4 local government elections.
Mayoral candidate Brett Herron and party leader Patricia de Lille are expected to unveil the pledges at the Cape Flats event, according to SABC News.
The choice of Athlone is not incidental. The Cape Flats is where the city’s housing backlog, its transport costs and its service delivery complaints concentrate hardest, and it is where a party with nine council seats has to convert a national profile into ward-level votes.
What the party is promising
National chairperson Matthew Cook set out the frame for Saturday’s launch.
“GOOD has a vision for the City of Cape Town, where everyone, regardless of your income or your postcode, feels like you belong here in the city,” he said.
Cook confirmed that Herron and De Lille would present the six pledges together.
The postcode line is the argument in miniature. Cape Town’s spatial divide runs along income, and a party contesting the metro has to say something about where people can afford to live, how far they travel to work and what they get for their rates.
The ground the party is contesting
GOOD entered the Cape Town council in 2021 with just over four percent of the vote, which translated into nine seats. That is a small caucus in a council of 231, and it is the base the party is building Saturday’s launch on.
Nine seats is enough to matter in a hung council and not enough to govern alone. The manifesto launch is therefore aimed at two audiences at once: voters who might move to GOOD, and the larger parties that may need a partner after November 4.
De Lille’s presence at the launch carries its own weight. She has governed Cape Town before, as mayor, and her record in the metro is the closest thing the party has to a proof of concept for the pledges Herron will read out on Saturday.
What happens next
The manifesto launch is Saturday in Athlone. Voters go to the polls on November 4.
Source: SABC News (website), GOOD Party to launch manifesto on Saturday
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