# The Freedom Front Plus in Tshwane is demanding urgent action to address a growing water crisis in Bronkhorstspruit, which it says is being caused by the collapse of the local water treatment works. The party’s Willie Spies says the root of the problem is an infrastructure reliability issue caused by ageing equipment and a […]
# Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana says he is dissatisfied with the progress reports from the City of Johannesburg, as he plans to instruct the National Treasury to stop the transfer of funds to the metro. In a letter to mayor Dada Morero, the minister says this step is necessitated by the metro adopting an […]
# The City of Tshwane says the continued erection of illegal structures and unlawful occupation of land is contributing to the rapid growth of informal settlements across the metro. Mayoral committee member for Human Settlements, Aaron Maluleka, conducted an oversight visit to the Koekemoer Informal Settlement in Centurion yesterday. The settlement originated from a farm […]
# City Power in Johannesburg het die krag na die privaat skool Curro in Noordwyk afgeskakel na jare van nie-betaling. Dis deel van ‘n algemene ingryping teen groot oortreders wat saam 38,1-miljoen-rand skuld. Woordvoerder Isaac Mangena sê die afskakeling volg weens ‘n volgehoue onbetaalde elektrisiteitrekening wat sedert 2023 opgebou het. Hy sê die optrede is […]
# City Power has disconnected power to Curro School in Noordwyk, a prominent private school, after years of non-payment. This is part of a sweeping crackdown targeting high-value defaulters owing a combined 38.1-million-rand. City Power spokesperson, Isaac Mangena, says the disconnection followed sustained non-payment of a 9.3-million-rand electricity account that had been accumulating since 2023. […]
# Die ouditeur-generaal, Tsakani Maluleke, veroordeel die verslegtende finansiële toestand, ineenstorting van dienslewering, vervalle infrastruktuur en uiters swak gevolgebestuur in Gautengse munisipaliteite. Uit die provinsie se elf munisipaliteite het slegs Midvaal en Wes-Rand skoon oudits ontvang. Johannesburg se oudit het in die 2024/2025-boekjaar verswak van ʼn ongekwalifiseerde ouditmening tot ʼn gekwalifiseerde ouditmening. Dit volg nadat […]
# Auditor-General, Tsakani Maluleke, has condemned deteriorating financial health, collapsing service delivery, degrading infrastructure, and very poor consequence management in Gauteng municipalities. Out of the province’s eleven municipalities, only Midvaal and West Rand received clean audits. Johannesburg’s standalone audit regressed from an unqualified audit opinion to a qualified audit opinion in the 2024/2025 financial year, […]
# Die geskorste adjunkhoof van die Ekurhuleni Metropolisie, Julius Mkhwanazi, het bewerings ontken dat hy betrokke was by kabeldiefstal in die Vaaldriehoek en die bewerings as “suiwer leuens” beskryf. Mkhwanazi het voor die Madlanga-kommissie gesê hy het bewyse ingedien wat toon die kabels wat herwin was, is gekoppel aan ‘n operasie in Mpumalanga wat gesteelde […]
# Suspended Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department deputy chief Julius Mkhwanazi has dismissed allegations that he was involved in cable theft in the Vaal Triangle, describing the claims as “pure lies”. Speaking before the Madlanga Commission, Mkhwanazi said he had submitted evidence showing the recovered cables were linked to an operation in Mpumalanga involving stolen infrastructure […]
