Local government

Joburg’s temporary emergency accommodation policy a misstep

The housing crisis needs to be addressed with long-term, stable, sustainable housing alternatives

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Opinion | 30 September 2024

Trash dumped at councillor’s office in electricity protest

Power has not been restored for a year to Dunoon fire victims

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Brief | 26 September 2024

Municipality demands contractor pay for delays to Limpopo stadium

Construction started in August 2023 and nearly half the work has still not been done

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News | 26 September 2024

It’s a dangerous job, but we have to do it, says neighbourhood crime fighter

The City of Cape Town Neighbourhood Watch Support Programme has just expanded its training programme

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News | 20 September 2024

Grannies battle water shortage in Kariega

Toilets are dirty and washing piles up after a month without running water

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Brief | 19 September 2024

R70-million spent on four projects left unfinished in the Eastern Cape

Kumkani Mhlontlo municipality refuses to give adequate explanations as residents and councillors raise questions

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Brief | 16 September 2024

Pensioners have to pay people to fetch drinking water from streams

Taps in this municipality have been dry for years

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News | 11 September 2024

City of Cape Town pushes for plan from PRASA to manage commuter rail

Legal correspondence over finalisation of rail agreement exchanged

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News | 10 September 2024

Seven years of promises but still no stadium

Waterval Stadium in Limpopo is still incomplete though at least R28-million has been spent

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News | 4 September 2024

Free State mayor’s mystery 7,000 km journey

Invoices suggest Nketoana mayor spent R100,000 on a rented car in a single month

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News | 3 September 2024

Hundreds march to Tshwane mayor’s office demanding debt write-off

“Please accommodate our motion to write off our debts”

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Brief | 29 August 2024

Cape Town’s hidden informal settlement

Flamingo Heights is home to 400 people

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News | 28 August 2024

Alarming Auditor-General report on municipalities

Only 34 out of 257 municipalities receive clean audits for 2022/23

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News | 27 August 2024

In these Free State villages you must share water with the pigs

2,000 households short of water in Maluti-a-Phofung, says ward councillor

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News | 23 August 2024

Protesters beg for development in their small Eastern Cape town

Tsomo residents march to municipal offices

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News | 21 August 2024

Cost of taxi rank balloons from R5.8-million to more than R20-million

It’s been a long wait for commuters in Tsomo

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Brief | 14 August 2024