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Falling apart: The AG report has raised concerns about the municipality’s ability to continue operating as its debt spiral deepens and service delivery stalls. Photo: Lunga Mzangwe
AUDITOR GENERAL SOUTH AFRICA

Mathjabeng in financial freefall

The Free State municipality is facing severe fiscal distress, with liabilities exceeding R5.8bn and a R871.6 million deficit, says Auditor General Tsakani Maluleke

  • Lunga Mzangwe
8 min read
Tools of the trade: When the city manager took up his position, the electricity department had one bakkie to cover Qwaqwa. He has since equipped the municipality with the needed vehicles.
ELECTRICITY OUTAGES

Prisoners, parolees and ghost workers on municipality payroll

Maluti-a-Phofung city manager Mzwakhe Mofokeng is on the warpath to stamp out rampant and entrenched corruption bringing the town to its knees

  • Lunga Mzangwe
8 min read
Good examples: In Midvaal, the library was teeming with locals who had access to free wifi and computers provided by the municipality. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
ANC

In Midvaal, the evidence suggests the DA does govern better

Even the informal settlements have running water, uninterrupted electricity and their own toilets

  • Lunga Mzangwe
8 min read
Mess: Comparisons are often drawn between Midvaal and the badly run Emfuleni municipality next door. Photos: Delwyn Verasamy
ANC

For Emfuleni residents, life is a daily grind of service delivery failures

The ANC-run municipality refuses to accept blame, accusing some residents of paying for DStv, servicing clothing accounts and drinking expensive alcohol instead of paying their…

  • Lunga Mzangwe
7 min read
President Cyril Ramaphosa. (@myANC/X)
ANC COUNCILLORS MEETING

DA governs the best-run municipalities, Ramaphosa tells ANC councillors

The ANC leader said it also hurts him to see that some municipalities run by the party were ‘being run backwards’

  • Lunga Mzangwe
3 min read
Residents protest over poor service delivery in South Africa. Photo: Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images
AUDITOR GENERAL REPORT

We need to arrest the drastic decline of our municipalities

The auditor general’s report makes it clear that something must be done to break the cycle of mismanagement

  • Darion Barclay
6 min read
Bheki Mtolo. (File photo)
ANC

Renewed calls to remove ANC’s Bheki Mtolo as party leaders considers its future in KwaZulu-Natal

The ANC Youth League says the provincial secretary caused divisions that led to the party’s electoral setbacks

  • Mandisa Makgakga
  • Lunga Mzangwe
  • Paddy Harper
6 min read