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• WaterPrice water in tiers by household size and need, not only use.
• Electricity and power cutsMake the cheaper Lifeline power price easier to get, for more homes.
• RubbishNo 2026 promise found.
• Toilets and sewageBring water, toilets and power to informal settlements, where people already live.
• RoadsSet fixed deadlines for fixing potholes, streetlights and basic maintenance.

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• Building housesMake new well-located developments include a set share of affordable homes.
• Informal settlementsGive informal settlements a secure right to stay, with basic services.
• Title deedsNo 2026 promise found.

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• CrimeTarget crime hotspots near schools, clinics and parks.
• Metro policeNo 2026 promise found.
• Local jobsBring outsourced City cleaning, security and upkeep back to City staff.
• Business and growthInvest in public workspace and support street traders and small survival businesses.

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• CorruptionLet the public attend committees that check spending and pick tenders.
• Audit resultsNo 2026 promise found.
• Wasteful spendingCut contractor mark-ups and use some savings for fair minimum wages.
• CoalitionsNo 2026 promise found.
• BudgetsLet residents decide how part of their ward's (Ward A small area inside a municipality. Each one elects one councillor.) budget is spent.

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• In Theewaterskloof, GOOD is in a coalition (Coalition Parties that agree to run a council together, usually because none has more than half the seats alone. Together they choose the mayor.) with the DA and SRWP. The DA's Lincoln de Bruyn was mayor (Mayor The leader of the municipality. Councillors choose this person, not voters. So the seats each party wins decide who can lead.) until a motion from the ANC, PA and EFF removed him in late September 2026, IOL reported. In October 2026 the DA said the council (Council The group of elected people who make decisions for a municipality. They pass its budget and choose the mayor.) had voted to undo his removal, the Daily Voice reported. No source outside the DA confirms who is mayor now. GOOD's Cynthia Clayton is executive deputy mayor, and GOOD's Welldon Wells is speaker (the person who chairs council meetings). Both have held these posts since November 2024. This comes from the council website, updated August 2026, and the audited 2024/25 financial statements. From 2021 to 2024 GOOD backed an ANC-led coalition with a PA mayor. In September 2024 GOOD expelled three of its councillors (Councillor A person elected to make decisions for a municipality, such as the budget and who the mayor is. Each one holds one seat.) who voted to remove the DA mayor. GroundUp reported that the council was "bankrupted within three financial years" while the ANC, PA and GOOD held the political reins. Its 2023/24 audit was qualified, which means the Auditor-General found some numbers it could not trust. Irregular spending, meaning spending that broke the rules, rose to R262 million. In November 2024 the province put the council under financial administration, which means the province steps in to fix the council's money. The Auditor-General's 2024-25 report lists Theewaterskloof among councils whose audit outcome got worse over the council term. It also lists the council among three Western Cape councils with going concern uncertainty, a warning that money problems may stop it running services.
• In Matzikama, GOOD joined the ANC, PA and EFF coalition that took over on 29 May 2025. GOOD councillor Christoffel van der Westhuizen became the mayoral committee member for community services, a post on the mayor's team. Both facts come from Daily Maverick. In August 2025 the DA won a by-election (a vote to fill one empty seat). Daily Maverick then reported that the DA now had enough votes to take back the mayor's post. We could not confirm whether that coalition is still in office.
• In Sol Plaatje (Kimberley), Daily Maverick reported in July 2025 that GOOD had two mayoral committee posts, which are seats on the mayor's team. It reported that the ANC had just won back an outright majority (more than half the seats). It also reported that the ANC formed a coalition with GOOD to keep control. We found no later source on GOOD's posts.

Parties (Party A group of people who stand for election together, with shared plans.) must declare some donations. This applies when one donor gives them more than R200 000 in total in a financial year. A financial year runs from April to March. The limit used to be R100 000. The President raised it in Proclamation Notice R. 275 of 2025. This was published in the Government Gazette on 18 August 2025. So the July to September 2025 report uses R100 000 for donations before that date. A smaller donation is declared once the donor's total for the year passes the limit. The IEC says the Political Funding Act covers each registered (Registered Your name is on the voters' roll. Registration for this election closed on 7 August 2026.) party, even one with no seats (Seat A place on the council, held by one councillor. A party with more votes gets more of these places.) in Parliament (Parliament South Africa's national law-makers, in Cape Town. It has two parts, the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces.) or a provincial legislature. So the IEC's reports cover each party listed here. Smaller gifts, membership fees and public money are not in these reports. So no rows means no donor passed the limit in these reports. It does not mean the party got no money. The IEC's yearly report shows each party's total of smaller gifts, without names. These are the donations the party told the IEC about, as the IEC published them. We do not compare parties. Checked 20 October 2026.

• “for its courage to act on its principles by charging Israel with genocide at the International Court of Justice”

  Party statement, 22 January 2026

  Brett Herron, GOOD's Secretary-General, said this in a party statement. South Africa has a case against Israel at the UN's top court, the International Court of Justice. GOOD praises the government for this, though it says the case costs South Africa Donald Trump's favour. It says being left off Trump's Board of Peace for Gaza is no loss. GOOD wants South Africa to keep the case and not drop it to please the US.

• “The GOOD Party calls on the South African government to continue its principled advocacy for justice in Palestine by submitting a supplementary affidavit to the International Court of Justice”

  Party statement, 19 November 2025

  Brett Herron, GOOD's Secretary-General, said this in a party statement. A plane had brought 153 Palestinians from Gaza to South Africa without warning. GOOD says they left because Gaza was destroyed, so in effect they were forced out. It says an Israeli government office seems to back such flights, and calls forcing people out a war crime. GOOD wants South Africa to give extra sworn evidence about this in its case against Israel at the UN's top court.

• “The trip was brought to light by Good MP Brett Herron”

  News report, 9 April 2025

  Daily Maverick reported that GOOD MP (MP (Member of Parliament) A person who sits in Parliament, which makes South Africa's laws. They are not chosen in this local election.) Brett Herron first made public a trip to Israel by DA and PA MPs. GOOD questioned what the trip was for.

• “We further demand that South Africa’s Parliament implement the Apartheid Bill and impose sanctions on Israel.”

  Party statement, 29 November 2024

  On the UN's day for the Palestinian people, GOOD asked Parliament (Parliament South Africa's national law-makers, in Cape Town. It has two parts, the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces.) to put sanctions on Israel. It also asked Parliament to bring in a law named in the quote. It said South Africa should lead calls for boycotts of Israel.

• “South Africa’s application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel, under the Genocide Convention, is a welcome attempt to deliver justice to Palestinian civilians who are being unjustly collectively punished for Hamas’ attack on Israel on 7 October 2023.”

  Party statement, 30 December 2023

  GOOD welcomed South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ, the UN's top court. It said Palestinian civilians were being punished as a group for Hamas's attack.

• “AYES – 248: (ANC – 200; EFF – 43; ATM – 2; NFP – 1; PAC – 1; Al’Jama-ah – 1). NOES – 91: (DA – 67; IFP – 11; FF Plus – 9; ACDP – 4).”

  Vote in Parliament, 21 November 2023

  Parliament voted on asking the government to close Israel's embassy (Embassy A country's main office in another country. It speaks for its own government there.) and cut ties until a ceasefire. The motion passed, 248 votes to 91. GOOD had MPs in Parliament then, but the count lists no GOOD MP on either side. The record does not say why.

• “We condemn the brutality perpetrated by Hamas against innocent citizens of Israel and we condemn the devastating retaliation by Israel.”

  Party statement, 10 October 2023

  GOOD said this three days after Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023. It condemned the attack on Israeli civilians, and also Israel's retaliation. It said Israel's occupation of land for decades must be dealt with for peace to come.

• “we can get behind much of what the President said today that the war could have been avoided, we advocate for peace, we don’t condone the violence and we are ready to support the multilateral efforts.”

  In Parliament, 17 March 2022

  Brett Herron, a GOOD MP, asked the President a question in Parliament about the war in Ukraine. He said GOOD could back much of the President's approach. That meant calling for peace, not accepting the violence, and supporting efforts made by many countries together.

We found nothing. Checked 27 October 2026.

• “The US is the most powerful economy in the world. It is not a relationship that South Africa seeks to break.”

  Party statement, 22 January 2026

  Brett Herron, GOOD's Secretary-General, said this in a party statement. GOOD says South Africa wants to keep working with the United States. But it believes Donald Trump will only be friendly if South Africa leaves BRICS and drops its case against Israel. GOOD says South Africa should refuse, even if relations must be put on hold for a while. If the US adds taxes on South African goods, it wants South Africa to find new buyers elsewhere.

• “The decision by the new G20 President for the year, the United States, to unilaterally cancel South Africa’s membership is procedurally flawed and disdainful of multilateralism.”

  Party statement, 5 December 2025

  Brett Herron, GOOD's Secretary-General, said this in a party statement. The G20 is a group of 20 big economies whose leaders meet each year. The US leads the G20 this year. GOOD says the US decided on its own to remove South Africa. GOOD says the US had no right to do this, because South Africa helped start the G20. It wants South Africa to keep talking to the US and correct false claims, but not give in.

• “the only way back into Trump’s good books would be for South Africa to renounce its membership of BRICS and its case against Israel at the ICJ. If that is the price of short-term friendship, it is too high”

  Party statement, 22 January 2026

  Brett Herron, GOOD's Secretary-General, said this in a party statement. BRICS is a group of countries, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, that work together. GOOD praises the government for keeping old friends in the West while making new ones in BRICS. It wants South Africa to stay in BRICS and keep its court case on Israel, even if the US stays unfriendly. It notes that Donald Trump has three more years in office.