Good party nominates four premier candidates

Patricia de Lille’s Good party has announced their premier candidates for the Western Cape, North West, Northern Cape and Gauteng.

De Lille is the candidate for the Western Cape, Vivien Law for North West, Leonard McKay for Northern Cape and Lehlohonolo Mtshali for Gauteng.

Law is a philanthropist and farmer.

She also runs Parliament of the People, a nonprofit organisation that establishes residents’ forums and committees in rural and urban communities where there are critical service delivery challenges.

Former ANC member McKay runs art projects in the Northern Cape and is a writer.

Mtshali resigned as a Democratic Alliance councillor in Ekurhuleni in 2017. He is now Good’s deputy secretary general.

The eight-week-old party announced its manifesto plans to “fix” South Africa last week. The key focus areas are spatial, economic, social and environmental justice. “People need to be employed,” said De Lille at their manifesto launch last week.

She added that she was prepared to turn government on its head for change.

“Our country needs leaders with the courage to tackle structural racism in society.” – ANA