Local government
Durban homeowners withhold payments to protest rates hike
Homeowners say the eThekwini municipality’s 2023/2024 budget does not take into account the inclusive needs of ratepayers.
News | 8 August 2023
Millions spent and 7 years later hawkers still sit without stalls
Only 60 of 320 stalls were built yet Mbhashe municipality paid the contractor
News | 8 August 2023
Slovo Park fury at City of Johannesburg’s broken promises
City has still not upgraded the settlement in spite of a 2016 court ruling
By Chris Gilili
News | 4 August 2023
R78-million Sebokeng license centre left to rot
R91-million needed to fix it, according to opposition MPL
By Chris Gilili
Brief | 1 August 2023
Protesters force city councillors to walk through sewage
Kariega residents divert Mandela Day convoy
News | 24 July 2023
Over 1,000 shack dwellers protest: “We are tired of living in squalor”
City of Cape Town accused of “persistent failure to collect rubbish ” in informal settlements
By Vincent Lali
News | 21 July 2023
Soweto informal settlement abandoned by government
After 33 years, just five working toilets and four working taps for hundreds of households in Nomzamo Park
By Chris Gilili
News | 21 July 2023
Government departments owe millions to Matatiele Local Municipality
Unpaid rates and taxes are affecting its ability to deliver services, says the municipality
News | 20 July 2023
City of Cape Town has built fewer than 20 social housing units in the inner city in six years, say activists
City says it has made more than 32,000 square metres of land available but there are challenges, including “hijacking” of buildings
News | 19 July 2023