In a city where reliable electricity is already a daily concern for many households and businesses, a quieter crisis has been unfolding behind the scenes. Delays...
South Africa’s local government landscape is getting a financial reset, and this time, it is aimed right at the top. Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister...
South Africa’s ongoing service delivery struggles have once again taken centre stage, with the ANC putting serious money on the table in a bid to turn...
Tensions are rising in eThekwini as residents and ratepayer groups push back against the municipality’s latest budget proposals, arguing that rising costs simply do not match...
SASSA cracks down on illegal sale of queue spots at grant offices A practice many South Africans know too well For thousands of grant beneficiaries, arriving...
Joburg billing shock: City Power taken to court over sudden electricity spike When the lights stay on, but the costs double For many Joburg businesses and...
Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has raised alarm over more than R7 billion in unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure in Free State municipalities, warning that...
Joburg water crisis exposed as burst pipe runs for hours unchecked A city watches water go to waste In a country where water shortages are becoming...
Well before the sun rises, Yonelisa Mali gets up, wakes her three young children, and rubs Vaseline all over their bodies. It is the only way to protect...
South Africa’s metropolitan municipalities are under fire for paying senior executives millions while service delivery collapses. Auditor-General Tsakani Maluleke’s latest report reveals that 16 top officials across eight metros...