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The Next Phase of Transformation: Where Policy, Power and Progress Collide

As South Africa’s transformation landscape continues to evolve amid changing economic realities and growing demands for accountability, the Nedbank Top Empowerment Conference…

The KwaZulu-Natal province experienced a deadly series of natural disasters, exacerbated by heavy rains driven by inevitable climate change. Photo: X/KwaZulu-Natal government

Democracy should feed land hunger

It is shocking that a post-1994 dispensation, emerging from a colonial-apartheid liberation struggle whose core objective was the return of land, has presided over the increase…

Cogta and Salga are  pushing for an amendment Bill that seeks to remove the undue influence of smaller parties on the appointment of political office bearers in municipalities to be approved as law by next year’s elections.
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Cogta, Salga keen for the passing of Bill limiting smaller parties’ influence on municipalities

The Bill seeks to stabilise local government by ensuring that parties which make the composition of municipal councils are a true representation of the will of the majority,…

The reality is that we simply cannot meet the African continent’s unique energy problems and opportunities without accelerating grid transformation. Photo: Salam Habash / Unsplash

New Electricity Regulation Amendment Act welcome but potential hurdles remain

The new Act heralds a bold move away from Eskom’s monopoly but there is potential for challenge

Salga’s new provincial chairperson, Xolani Dube

Amakhosi, councillors must get VIP protection, says new Salga KwaZulu-Natal chair Xolani Dube

A recent report noted that 213 people were assassinated in the last seven years, and of these 118 were in KwaZulu-Natal

Busisipho Siyobi, Patrick Kulati, Asafika Mpako, Pransih Desai and Mmabatho Mongae.
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The youth must vote if they want change

Participation in our fledgling democracy at all levels is the best way forward

KwaZulu-Natal premier Thami Ntuli.  Photo: Mbuso Kunene

Government owes KwaZulu-Natal municipalities R3 billion for rates, water, electricity

Households are battling to keep up with their municipal bills in the face of stubbornly high interest rates, according to Salga This content is restricted to registered users and…

Data governance provides evidence-based decision-making that improves the quality of service delivery

Trust in the safety of tap water is waning: survey

Half of respondents treat their municipal water by boiling or filtering it before consumption, while 8% specified that they drink only bottled water This content is restricted to…

The reality is that we simply cannot meet the African continent’s unique energy problems and opportunities without accelerating grid transformation. Photo: Salam Habash / Unsplash

A spoke in Mpumalanga’s power wheel

Wheeling electricity across the grid offers a solution to South Africa’s power crisis, so why is it not happening in the energy heartland?

Matimba coal-powered station in Lephalale. (Paul Botes/AFP)

R63 billion municipal debt places Eskom at risk, says minister

The lack of financial viability of councils is a threat to the state-owned-entity’s sustainability

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Non-delivery sparks citizens’ legal action in Eastern Cape

Fed-up residents and businesses are turning to the courts to get their local councils to take action on power outages, sewage overflows, unrepaired roads and other failures to…

“Our municipalities have a crisis of poor financial management or planning to attract revenue, and they need to be capacitated there,” Amos Masondo said.

Calls for removal of unethical local government leaders at Salga conference

Ability must determine who gets hired, not jobs for pals or because of their political affiliation, says the head of the South African Local Government Association

Criticised: Council of Medical Schemes registrar Sipho Kabane

War of words over declined medical aid merger

Sizwe Medical Fund has taken a swipe at the Council for Medical Schemes for declining its merger with Hosmed

A family prepares a gravestone for an unveiling.

The Covid-19 burial problem for South Africa

The government’s plan to deal with the pandemic and its aftermath includes managing ‘the challenges of bereavement’ that will accompany large-scale deaths

Jean-Baptiste Buffet addresses a panel discussion at the UCLG Congress

Global leaders converge for summit

Local government bodies are enabled to influence global policy decision-making

The national power utility is about R420-billion in debt and has been seeking ways to reduce its liabilities. (David Harrison/M&G)

Nersa to begin hearings on electricity tariffs

Over the course of three weeks, Nersa will hold hearings on what the debt-laden power utility

“The transition means more decentralised distribution systems for electricity
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Are municipalities ready to flip the switch?

Three-day summit worked towards practical solutions to energy crisis

Urgent action is required to address the constraints to South Africa’s power system and to reduce the usage of the diesel-fired turbines, the council said.

Eskom to make way for new players

Experts from across the country gathered to chart a way forward to bring cheaper energy to South Africa

‘As electricity tariffs rise

Eskom’s death spiral looms large

Corruption claims aside, the utility needs more cash to cover for flagging sales volumes

The Moerane Commission is investigating the politically- fuelled killings in Kwazulu-Natal.

KZN political killings still unsolved

The Moerane inquiry heard that the assassins of three Richmond municipal officials are still at large