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/ 17 February 2006
The local councillor does not live in the area, seldom visits and "doesn’t really know what is going on, otherwise they would have built houses" …
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/ 16 February 2006
The government is making an extra R9,6-billion available to the provinces this year, but at the same time is cracking the whip on accountability and better service delivery. A nationally applicable performance assessment system for top municipal officials will be in force by the start of the new municipal financial year, from July 1.
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/ 10 February 2006
The African National Congress-led Cape Town council appears to have been drafted to boost the party’s faltering municipal election campaign.
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/ 3 February 2006
Two-thirds of the government’s community development workers — the grassroots civil servants deployed by President Thabo Mbeki to boost local government services — have failed to find jobs in municipalities in the Western Cape. In his 2003 State of the Nation address, Mbeki launched the scheme to bring government services to people’s place of residence.
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/ 27 January 2006
The ANC has pledged to weed out candidates with
skeletons in their closets, but a few have slipped the net.
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/ 15 December 2005
It’s a women’s race for the post of mayor in Cape Town — the only metropole where female public leadership goes beyond lip service to the ballot paper. The battle is on between incumbent African National Congress executive mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo and Democratic Alliance MP Helen Zille.
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/ 9 December 2005
A political storm is breaking around a Cape Town journalist who has been suspended over his alleged moonlighting for the Western Cape provincial government and for links through his wife’s company to supporters of Premier Ebrahim Rasool.
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/ 5 December 2005
More than a year after launching the comprehensive plan on sustainable human settlements, aimed at eradicating slums, South Africa still has a backlog of 2,4-million houses. There are delays in the new housing plan, with most provinces yet to launch pilot projects. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> speaks to the Minister of Housing, Lindiwe Sisulu, about these and other issues.
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/ 28 November 2005
Faced with an instant population increase of up to 50%, the Northern Cape has set up a number of technical teams and a series of meetings to incorporate three cross-border councils from the North-West. The anticipated increase of between 220 000 and 450 000 residents could boost the provincial head count from 822 000 to an estimated 1,2-million.
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/ 21 November 2005
The Ekurhuleni Metro will become the sixth municipality to receive a credit rating, a tool that will assist it in raising additional finance, through loans or even muni-cipal bonds, under the Municipal Finance Management Act. In October, Cape Town was rated "positive" with A+ long-term and A1 short-term ratings by CA Ratings, risk analysts in the municipal area.