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AI analysis assigns a numerical score from -2 to +2 based on the party's stance relative to state control vs. free market, or opposition vs. support for a specific policy reform.
Policy Commitments
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GOOD strongly advocates for clean and ethical governance, with a primary focus on eradicating corruption across all spheres of government. They propose systemic reforms, professionalizing the public service based on meritocracy, and implementing transparent digital procurement systems to prevent and detect corruption.
Key Proposals
- Eradicate corruption through ethical leadership and proper choices of leaders.
- Implement systems in all government departments to detect and prevent corruption, including Anti-Corruption Task Teams.
- Implement a fully transparent digital public procurement system using blockchain technology.
- Provide more resources to the National Prosecuting Authority and Special Investigating Unit.
- Protect, incentivise and reward whistleblowers.
- Professionalise the administration and ensure political leaders are not involved in public service recruitment.
- Review and reform administrative structures of government.
GOOD strongly supports significant investment in early childhood development (ECD) as a foundation for future education and skills. They advocate for creating more state-funded ECD centers, upgrading school infrastructure, ensuring equity across public schools, improving teaching quality, and providing free tertiary education for academically qualified but financially constrained students.
Key Proposals
- Invest more in the formative stage of children's education, particularly early childhood development.
- Support funding to create more early childhood development centres.
- Urgently bring all school infrastructure up to standard, including eradicating pit toilets.
- Ensure equity in standards across all public schools.
- Improve the quality of teaching and availability of learning tools and technology.
- Provide social services in schools for learners and teachers.
- Provide free tertiary education for those who qualify academically but can't afford it.
The party strongly advocates for a rapid transition to renewable energy to end load-shedding, viewing it as the cheapest and most effective form of energy production. They support partnerships with the private sector for this transition and commit to not extending the life of existing coal plants.
Key Proposals
- End load-shedding with renewable energy.
- Rapid transition to renewable energy in partnership with the private sector.
- Do not extend the life of existing coal plants beyond their scheduled retirement age.
- Accelerate development of renewable energy generation.
GOOD strongly supports eradicating apartheid spatial planning by prioritizing state-built social and community housing. They advocate for making well-located public and state-acquired land available for higher-density, mixed-income housing, urbanizing informal settlements, and providing temporary housing for the homeless.
Key Proposals
- Make more land available for subsidised and affordable housing in well-located areas close to city centres.
- Build high density and well-located housing.
- Increase the supply of Social and Community Housing.
- Release well-located land and make it available for affordable housing, using inner city public land or state acquired land.
- Urbanise informal settlements into formal settlements, upgrading infrastructure and ensuring proper tenure.
- Provide suitable temporary housing for people experiencing homelessness, combined with proper health and support services.
The manifesto does not address immigration, local border control, or regulations concerning foreign-owned spaza shops. There is no mention of policies related to the presence or integration of foreign nationals at the local level.
GOOD strongly supports expanding social welfare provisions, including a R999 Basic Income Grant for all unemployed and increasing other grants to match inflation. They also advocate for making basic municipal services affordable, and in some cases free, which directly benefits indigent households and provides local relief.
Key Proposals
- Implement a R999 Basic Income Grant for all unemployed.
- Raise other grants to meet the rate of inflation.
- Reform and restructure the social security system, including the Old Age Grant.
- Ensure basic services like electricity, water, and sewerage are affordable and, in some cases, free.
GOOD supports better policing but emphasizes addressing the root causes of crime, such as poverty and inequality. They advocate for professional, demilitarized, and community-centric law enforcement, alongside providing psychological support for individuals with substance abuse or mental health issues, and reintegration programs for ex-convicts. They also prioritize addressing Gender-based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) through education and victim support.
Key Proposals
- Address conditions that make crime prevalent, such as poverty and inequality.
- Provide more psychological support for people suffering from substance abuse, mental health, and economic stress.
- Ensure law enforcement officers are properly trained, professional, demilitarised, and community-centric.
- Support programmes for ex-convicts to ensure their reintegration into communities.
- Address GBVF through societal education of young men.
- Ensure police investigate domestic violence reports promptly and work with social workers.
- Empower communities to assist the police in fighting crime and GBVF.
The manifesto mentions providing access to healthcare and psychological support for specific vulnerable groups, such as the LGBTQIA+ community, victims of gender-based violence, and the homeless. However, it does not detail a broader policy stance on municipal clinics, primary healthcare systems, or the National Health Insurance (NHI).
Key Proposals
- Give access to healthcare and psychological support among LGBTQIA+ people.
- Support victims of domestic abuse through health and psychological support.
- Provide proper health and support services for people experiencing homelessness.
GOOD strongly supports state-led economic development and job creation, particularly in townships. They propose significant investment in public infrastructure, targeted government investment in labour-intensive sectors, and a comprehensive urban management programme to create employment and uplift communities.
Key Proposals
- Pursue inclusive economic growth to create more jobs.
- Increase labour-intensive employment opportunities in the public sector.
- Urgently upgrade critical infrastructure, including township infrastructure to the same standard as wealthy suburbs.
- Remove red tape and provide funding access for SMMEs.
- Implement a labour-intensive comprehensive urban management programme for massive employment opportunities in maintenance and urban management.
- Invest in public infrastructure (electricity, transport, water, housing, digital communications) to create jobs.
- Provide financial support for small businesses and reduce unemployment.
GOOD strongly supports comprehensive land reform aimed at redressing apartheid's spatial legacy. They advocate for using all publicly owned land (national, provincial, and local) for land redistribution, housing, and farming projects, prioritizing socio-economic objectives and providing restitution for apartheid victims through land or monetary compensation.
Key Proposals
- Accelerate land reform and redistribute well-located land for more housing and socio-economic opportunities.
- Ensure public land is used for public good, including socio-economic objectives, land reform, and job creation.
- Provide proper restitution for victims of apartheid through appropriate land and/or monetary compensation.
- Use all publicly owned land for land redistribution purposes, housing, and farming projects.
- Address gender disparities in land ownership through land reform policies.
GOOD strongly supports the development of quality, affordable, and integrated public transport systems. They propose establishing a single local government transport authority in each city to manage an integrated network with a single ticket system, ensuring universal accessibility, and integrating land use with transport networks.
Key Proposals
- Provide quality, affordable public transport.
- Urgently upgrade critical infrastructure, including roads, pavements, stormwater drains, and sidewalks.
- Establish a single local government transport authority in each city for integrated transport operations and a single ticket system.
- Ensure public transport is universally accessible and accommodates persons with disabilities.
- Integrate land use and development with public transport networks by uplifting surrounding infrastructure.
GOOD's national ideology is deeply rooted in achieving social, economic, spatial, and environmental justice, aiming to correct the legacies of apartheid and colonialism. While not explicitly Pan-Africanist or advocating for radical renaming, their foreign policy emphasizes a fairer, more inclusive world order, reducing global inequalities, correcting past injustices, and empowering the Global South, reflecting a strong anti-imperialist stance.
Key Proposals
- Pursue social, economic, spatial and environmental justice in the international sphere.
- Demand a fairer, more inclusive world order that reduces global inequalities and corrects past injustices.
- Call for reform of the United Nations Security Council and Bretton Woods Institutions to empower the Global South.
- Advocate for an immediate ceasefire and two-state solution in the War in Gaza, recognizing the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory.
GOOD strongly supports the provision of quality, equal, and affordable basic services, including water, sanitation, and refuse removal, to all communities. They propose that these services should be affordable and, in some cases, free, emphasizing the need to upgrade core public infrastructure.
Key Proposals
- Upgrade core public infrastructure to ensure quality services.
- Ensure basic services like water and sewerage are affordable and, in some cases, free.
- Make basic services affordable so that all residents can access them.