Local government

More than two years since construction started, toilets remain incomplete in Free State village

The contract was terminated due to unsatisfactory progress a year ago

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Brief | 3 October 2022

South Coast businesses join forces to provide services municipalities are supposed to provide

“We’re not here to criticise the municipalities. We’ve tried it for years. It doesn’t solve anything.”

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News | 30 September 2022

Municipality liable for child shot by mayor’s bodyguard

Five-year-old suffered severe brain damage and paralysis

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Law | 23 September 2022

Emalahleni is failing to provide clean drinking water to 500,000 people

People have to use their social grants to buy electricity to boil dirty water

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News | 22 September 2022

Residents take to the streets after Harrismith without power for two weeks

Electricity restored Sunday afternoon but municipality will need millions to fix its substation properly

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News | 19 September 2022

Decades into democracy Pietermaritzburg can’t blame ageing infrastructure for water woes, says SAHRC

Hearings into the province’s water crisis concluded on Friday

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News | 22 August 2022

The President came, the President went, and nothing changed

15 months after the Harrismith N3 protests, the people of Intabazwe say they remain forgotten

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News | 18 August 2022

Makhanda to provide serviced sites instead of houses

City unable to cope with rise in housing needs

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Brief | 18 August 2022

Eastern Cape towns without water for two weeks

Striking workers at Amathole District Municipality say they are not to blame

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News | 12 August 2022

This is why Tembisa residents started deadly riots

Electricity was at the root of dissatisfaction

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News | 12 August 2022

Boys play soccer in neglected Gugulethu Cemetery

Petition launched to get City of Cape Town to fix the graveyard

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Brief | 1 August 2022

Tshwane invites bids for Pastor Bushiri’s former stomping ground

Dilapidated Tshwane Events Centre to be rebuilt

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News | 21 July 2022

Setback for Makhado Municipality in access to information case …

… but they will probably just start afresh

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Analysis | 11 June 2022

Hundreds of Amathole workers march to block municipal manager’s reappointment

SAMWU accuses Mthandeki Mnyimba of being incapable of running the municipality and victimising workers who speak out against him

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Brief | 9 June 2022

Bad driving, gang violence and a hostage situation: why there’s no water in Smartie Town

Hundreds of Gqeberha families have been without water since Sunday

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Brief | 9 June 2022

Delft protesters want better roads, better policing, and toilets at the taxi rank

“We want a bigger police station and more police to serve the community” says SANCO leader

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News | 6 June 2022