GOOD Party says Cape Town mayor is misleading residents about the 2025/2026 budget [SOUND]

# The GOOD Party says Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis’s attempt to paint critics of the metro’s 2025/2026 budget as enemies of the poor is disingenuous and misleading. The total budget increased from 76.6-billion-rand in 2024/2025 to 84.1-billion-rand. GOOD’s secretary general, Brett Herron, says the true pro-poor elements of this budget, including free basic services and expanded sanitation provision, are not funded by cross-subsidisation from wealthy residents: