GOOD party to proceed with formal disciplinary hearing against Peter de Villiers
4 March 2024
On 31 January 2024 the leadership of GOOD received a complaint of sexual assault and sexual harassment against GOOD member of the Western Cape Provincial Legislature, Peter De Villiers.
GOOD is a women-led party, with a Constitution containing a set of real values to which all members subscribe and account irrespective of their positions.
GOOD’s Constitution deals comprehensively and unequivocally with gender rights and sexual misconduct. The party is proud of its record of advocacy for the equal rights of women and girls, and against the plague of gender-based violence in South Africa.
The nature of the allegations against De Villiers were sufficiently serious to demand his immediate suspension from GOOD pending an internal investigation followed, if warranted, by the convening of a formal disciplinary hearing.