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Patricia de Lille
Jul 29, 20212 min read
Fixing SA Is Not For Sissies
Those who used poor people as a Trojan horse to create chaos lost, because the amount of GOOD South Africans outnumber the bad.
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Patricia de Lille
Jul 1, 20212 min read
The GOOD Approach To Fixing Municipalities
Wherever I go, people ask me about GOOD's plans to contest local government elections in October, and our approach to fixing municipalities.
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Patricia de Lille
May 15, 20212 min read
A GOOD Time To Hold Municipalities To Account
Aunty Pat lays out her thoughts on the 2021 Local Government Elections. Furthermore, she paints an image of the country that we could be.
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Patricia de Lille
Apr 1, 20212 min read
To Fix Violence, We Must Fix Commmunities
Stemming the current tide of violence involves taking a long and hard look at the state of our communities. Only then can we make progress.
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Mar 3, 20212 min read
We Wish Aunty Pat Well
As the GOOD movement, we send our condolences to Aunty Pat and her family in the wake of her husband's unfortunate passing.
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Patricia de Lille
Dec 20, 20202 min read
Safety First - We Can Be Festive Later
This Christmas, my plea to all South Africans is not to allow Covid to turn our December celebrations into January and February's tragedies.
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Patricia de Lille
Dec 8, 20202 min read
Aunty Pat Sê: A GOOD Alternative To the Old Elephant Fight
The fight for power between the two old elephants of South African politics, the DA and the ANC, has brought nothing but suffering.
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Nov 5, 20203 min read
Aunty Pat: Fighting Corruption Is Not For Sissies
Aunty Pat tells all in a column for Waarheid, discussing corruption, opposition politics as well as the important upcoming by elections.
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Patricia de Lille
Sep 22, 20202 min read
We Must Elect Our Own Representatives
When we elect our own people to represent us, people from our own communities who we know we can trust, we have a direct say.
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Patricia de Lille
Aug 9, 20202 min read
Aunty Pat Sê: Make Women First-Class Citizens
This Women's Month is different to any others. The coronavirus pandemic has grotesquely underlined the truth that women remain second-class.
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