The provincial administration plans to use government-owned buildings to cut down on expenditure
		
	 
	
		
		The ANC and the DA have blamed the Electoral Commission of South Africa for ‘waking up late’ to request a postponement of the local government elections
		
	 
	
		
		The Msunduzi local municipality in KwaZulu-Natal is on permanent life support and shows no sign of being cured
		
	 
	
		
		Legally, the local government election must be held this year and the government hasn’t said why they wouldn’t go ahead, says the Electoral Commission of South Africa 
		
	 
	
		
		Two state departments have done nothing about the sale of people’s land in Umnini by an inkosi –and R2.5-million has still not been accounted for