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For many Vaal residents, freedom has brought little that resembles the Promised Land. Water disappears, electricity fails, roads crumble, and sewage runs through the streets. So deep is…
Cape Town’s municipal achievements are substantial, but so is the gap between its affluent districts and poorer communities. A city cannot measure successful governance by financial…
Nelson Mandela Bay was once an industrial powerhouse. Today, factional battles, unstable coalitions, financial mismanagement, and collapsing infrastructure have reduced it to a…
A municipal park should offer children safety, exercise, and community. In Saulsville, it offers sewage, rubbish, vandalised equipment, and a brutal lesson in what institutional neglect…
South Africa does not lack laws, institutions or mechanisms to rescue failing municipalities. What it lacks is the political will to use them consistently. Replacing basic, yet critical…
A proposed R2 billion tyre factory could transform Nelson Mandela Bay's manufacturing landscape. The Sailun Group is considering Coega for a regional production hub that would create…
Nelson Mandela Bay has unveiled an R60 million electricity infrastructure programme to strengthen two of its most strategic economic zones. From the Coega SEZ to Summerstrand, the projects…
The National Treasury has confirmed the conditional release of grant funds to municipalities following a month-long assessment. The initial intervention followed widespread financial…
After years of power failures, South Africans refused to wait for salvation. They built it on their own rooftops. Now municipalities and Eskom appear determined to turn that independence…
Once celebrated as South Africa’s best-run metro, Ekurhuleni’s decline reveals the devastating mechanics of municipal capture—where institutional oversight was dismantled, and the cost of…
While the R2 billion cyber theft in Ekurhuleni is no longer front-page news, its underlying causes—graft, mismanagement, and weak oversight—continue to haunt the city’s administration. As…
By the time Emfuleni Local Municipality was placed under constitutional intervention in 2018, the crisis confronting one of South Africa's most strategically important municipalities had…
Emfuleni's decline was not triggered by a single crisis but by years of mounting governance failures, financial instability and neglected infrastructure. Despite repeated interventions by…
Across South Africa, the failure of local government is not just a headline—it is the backdrop to everyday life. For millions, broken promises and failing services have become routine…
An informed vote is the only weapon capable of breaking the cycle of administrative decay. Ahead of the local elections in November, the SA Telegraph launches an extensive, in-depth series…
Framing the intervention as a "corrective reset," Nelson Mandela Bay leadership has launched immediate damage-control measures following Treasury’s severe funding freeze. A…
When the leader of a major metropolis turns his own overflowing dustbins into a badge of relatability, something has gone comically wrong with the civic script. It is the ultimate display…
With the national government halting funding to Johannesburg and major metros, local councils face mounting pressure to resolve budget shortfalls and settle utility arrears. Treasury…
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