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CITY POLITICS

Jolt the city into self-reliance

Mayor Parks Tau’s greatest success is an electricity plan that makes Johannesburg less dependent on Eskom.

  • Phillip De Wet
3 min read
ANC chairperson Gwede Mantashe. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)
ANC

ANC factionalism tears at eThekwini in fight for top seat

"Post-1994 some people are joining [the ANC] because of material [things], love for positions and basking in glory," worries KZN premier Senzo Mchunu.

  • Matuma Letsoala
  • Qaanitah Hunter
  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
CITY POLITICS

‘Why does KZN lead in police killings?’

Statistics suggest there was more than one police unit in the province linked to unlawful killings.

  • David Bruce
8 min read
In the newly democratic South Africa, the shamefully low level of electrification of black households was seen as an apartheid wrong that needed to be righted.
CITY POLITICS

Struggle for power in Soweto goes underground

Electricity thieves are using cunning methods to ply their trade that not even the police or Eskom can prevent.

  • Phillip De Wet
8 min read
CITIES

Metros wake up to energy shifts

But efficiency and sustainability are still at odds with the way in which our cities work when it comes to power.

  • Staff Reporter
6 min read
Ntando Magubane listens to mayor Parks Tau’s address alone at Thokoza Park.
CITY POLITICS

Johannesburg: One metropolis, two lives

SA’s de facto capital has announced bold plans to change the lives of its citizens. But not everyone is on board, as events on the same day showed.

  • Phillip De Wet
8 min read
President Jacob Zuma and World Cup organiser Danny Jordaan.
ANC

Desperate ANC wants Danny Jordaan as PE mayor

Eastern Cape leadership wants the soccer boss as Nelson Mandela Bay’s mayor to retain the key metro and revive its fortunes before 2016 elections.

  • Matuma Letsoala
  • Thulani Gqirana
  • Qaanitah Hunter
  • Sipho Kings
  • Staff Reporter
11 min read