National Treasury is temporarily withholding the July 2026 equitable share transfers to dozens of South African municipalities to instil strict fiscal discipline and root out financial misconduct. The intervention follows what the department...
The following address was delivered by the Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure, Mr Dean Macpherson, at the second Public Works and Infrastructure Summit, hosted by the Council for the Built Environment, at The Focus Room in Modderfontein,...
Just over a third (38%) of the residents of South Africa’s commercial capital, Johannesburg, reported being satisfied with their electricity services in a survey conducted in 2023/2024. This was down from 77% in 2017/18. The decline reflected years...
The Auditor-General’s 2024/25 consolidated report on local government delivers a finding that should unsettle comfortable assumptions about South Africa’s cities. Not a single metropolitan municipality achieved a clean audit. Five...
