GOOD Party secretary-general and Western Cape MPL Brett Herron has announced an unprecedented arrangement, which will see RISE Mzansi Western Cape convenor Axolile Notywala taking up a position as a GOOD councillor in the City of Cape Town.
The GOOD Party’s leadership approached Notywala with the proposition.
Notywala said he believed this was due to work done in civil society, particularly over the past 15 years, championing issues similar to those the GOOD Party had focused on, namely human settlements, land and housing, and spatial justice.
“Similar issues that also RISE Mzansi had focused on, so the similarities in terms of the ideology of these parties as well, being social democratic parties with the values of freedom, justice, equality and solidarity, were some of the considerations,” he said.
Notywala’s previous…