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Earlier this month the IEC, in accordance with scheduling protocols, closed the voter roll after the government set October 27 as the date the nation will go to the polls. (Luis Tato/AFP)
CYRIL RAMAPHOSA

Online voter registration hinges on constitutional court decision

The Electoral Commission of South Africa’s new facility ran for only two weeks before it asked the constitutional court to delay the elections

  • Luke Feltham
4 min read
Tanked up: The Ugu district municipality has had to use water trucks to deliver water while some people have to collect their own. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Political battle drains coastal taps

Sabotage and infighting threaten the water supply of 750000 South Coast residents

  • Paddy Harper
7 min read
The killings of two council workers at the Amathole district municipality appear to be linked to tender fraud and corruption. (Paul Botes/M&G)
AMATHOLE

E. Cape MEC orders graft probe after two workers are killed at troubled district municipality

The killing of two council workers at the Amathole district municipality appears to be linked to tender fraud and corruption

  • Chris Gilili
5 min read
These deaths this could have been averted had the Lekwa municipality in Mpumalanga followed due process in obtaining new fire trucks. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ANGEL KHANYILE

Lekwa municipality won’t answer questions about why children died in fire

Three children are dead. More than a dozen homes have been gutted by fires in the past six months. And, as the Mail & Guardian reported last week, all this could have been…

  • Athandiwe Saba
4 min read