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...
See Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis’ full address here. Read more below: ‘We are proud to table the City of Hope budget for adoption today with every part of our basic infrastructure investment still intact. This is alongside expanded relief to...
Hundreds of land activists took to the streets in Durban and Johannesburg on Friday to protest a proposed anti-land occupation law. Supporters of shack dweller movement Abahlali baseMjondolo (ABM) marched to the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and...
The escalating Lesedi Local Municipality’s (“LLM”) debt has prompted Rand Water to reduce the bulk potable water supply by 20% due to its failure to honour several scheduled payments. The decision to reduce water supply to the municipality follows...
