/ 24 January 2025

No services, no jobs, as businesses flee Free State municipality

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The hole nine yards: Pothholed roads and a fallen electric pole, which took more than a month to be repaired. (Lunga Mzangwe/M&G)

Wrangling in the ANC, incompetence and corruption have brought the council close to collapse

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