eThekwini says it is cooperating with investigations into EPWP corruption, including claims of “jobs for sex” and ghost workers
Public Works Minister Dean Macpherson has suspended EPWP funding to eThekwini after an Auditor-General report exposed ghost beneficiaries, irregular payments and allegations of…
The council has racked up billions in irregular and unauthorised expenditure, impacting services and ratepayers
Municipalities get 10% of the national budget and must raise revenue from service users, most of whom are the working class poor and unemployed
South Africa needs to rethink its executive overload and trim the number of deputy ministers, saving R100 million a year
Residents deserve to know that the information shared with their municipality is securely stored and will not be leaked, sold or weaponised
Only 5% of entities, departments and municipalities have initiated blacklisting for offenders
The councillor has been accused of giving away provincial land for a taxi rank development without following legislation
Makana’s budget, and those of most municipalities, need monitoring and the corrupt and wasteful held to account
As a recent court case in Nelson Mandela Bay shows, the city management appointment process should be purely administrative and stripped of politics
Eastern Cape’s head of public works Babalo Madikizela has hit back at Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, saying she had no authority to investigate him
Service-delivery issues, procurement inefficiencies and cadre deployment continue to plague municipalities, according to the Bureau for Economic Research
The municipality has accrued billions of rand in wasteful spending, and more than 6 000 putrid bucket toilets
The Hawks and the NPA want to boost forensic investigative capacity to get back more money lost to corruption
An investigation into the Northern Cape municipality has uncovered multiple issues of alleged fraud, including nepotism and unauthorised salary hikes
Danny Msiza and Kabelo Matsepe will become the first politicians to be face charges for alleged complicity in the scandal
The ANC is facing a revolt over the looting of VBS bank, which took money from poor communities, with warnings of electoral consequences in 2021 local elections
Municipalities are in complete disarray, with many of them flagged by the auditor-general for deliberate lack of accountability and tolerance for transgressions by political and…
Mcebisi Mlonzi is blaming the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) for allegedly providing bad advice to the Amahlathi local municipality
Crackdown follows trend of top officials allegedly looting millions
