President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced changes to the National Executive following consultation with the leadership of the Democratic Alliance as a member of the Government of National Unity (GNU). “These changes will affect the Ministries of...
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...
Across South Africa, roads crumble, wastewater systems fail, refuse accumulates and infrastructure projects stall midway through completion. Increasingly, many citizens are asking the same question: What is happening to our municipalities?...
By turning water infrastructure contracts from a once-off capital project into a continuously managed, performance-driven service, public–private partnerships (PPPs) can make infrastructure far more resilient. Within this framework, EnviroServ, a...