There’s disagreement over the quality of water in Hammanskraal, with the City of Tshwane insisting it’s safe to drink. But the Human Rights Commission told residents at a community meeting, that it isn’t. The HRC says it intervened...
Nearly R20 million has been set aside to beef up security around municipal infrastructure to deal with increasing vandalism. This comes after the Mayenzeke Clinic in Khayelitsha was burgled earlier this month. Computers, nutritional products and...
Tenders to the value of R8.3bn for construction work in KwaZulu-Natal will be issued within the current financial year, as announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa. This will include seven major tenders on the N3, which will go out in the next three...
The recent heavy downpours in the Western Cape has resulted in a major boost in dam levels. The biggest dam in the province, the Theewaterskloof Dam, increased by 8.6% since last week bringing the levels up to a healthy 61.7%. Clanwilliam Dam, the...
The City of Johannesburg’s tariff hikes kicked in from 1 July. The announcement was made during the 2019/2020 financial year budget presentation in May. Water tariffs increase by 9.9%, while electricity tariffs have increased by 13.07%....
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) is not surprised at the Auditor General of South Africa’s (AGSA) report that governance in local Government has continued to decline to levels never experienced in the history of democratic South Africa....
Tshwane metro is set to open new landfill sites to end dumping woes for its residents. Spokesperson Lindela Mashigo told Record East that the metro has already identified sites and feasibility studies would soon commence, in order to determine...
The Alex Shutdown movement will march to the City of Johannesburg regional offices in Sandton on Wednesday morning, to hand over another memorandum with their demands. A large contingent of SAPS officers were deployed to parts of Alexandra ahead of...
The data reported from a ground-penetrating radar survey will help to pinpoint anomalies in the concrete spillway structure at Middle Lake, which recently suffered significant erosion damage. This emergency situation required urgent action to...
