Earlier this week, the ailing utility’s chief operating officer assured the public it would try to avoid load-shedding as voters head to the polls on Monday
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The Ugu district municipality has, for years, failed to provide a constant source of clean water and parties are pitching their elections campaigns around the crisis
Stage four load-shedding rolled out to ensure the polls on Monday 1 November are energy secure
The Democratic Alliance leader rebuking cricketer Quinton de Kock would be this election season’s greatest triumph
Flashbacks of nicotine deprivation and not poor service delivery may see a run on the polls on Monday
Stage-four outages will continue until Friday after the loss of two units during the night, and three in total at Medupi, Kusile and Matla power plants tripping
No money for posters means fewer politicians leering from the light poles, six months after the polls
Bernard Moraka and Victor Tshabalala, the director of a coal transport company, defrauded the power utility by claiming payments for work not done
With many job losses caused by the looting and arson of July, the Midlands town faces an uncertain future
National Freedom Party candidates in the Zululand town have gone into hiding amid fears that they will be targeted next
More than 445 000 people between the ages of 18 and 29 have registered to cast their vote in the Western Cape come 1 November
As the three big parties make their last attempts to woo voters in this year’s local government elections, we look back at the promises in their manifestos
Voter turnout for local government elections has steadily risen since 2000, but the uptick could be stalled by Covid-19, much like registration has been
Police minister Bheki Cele said they have identified the KZN, Gauteng, Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces as high risk areas deploying a high contingent of police and SANDF
Malibongwe Dubazane is contesting all 14 of the IFP-run Nkandla local municipality’s wards
The nascent Setsoto Service Delivery Forum is confident it can remove the ‘failing ANC’ in the chronically mismanaged Free State municipality
Paddy Harper doesn’t know who to vote for yet, since the Dagga Party isn’t contesting his ward, but right now what to order for lunch is a more pressing concern
While on the campaign trail in the Eastern Cape, EFF leader Julius Malema, without evidence, claimed the ANC was planning to use rolling blackouts to ‘steal votes’
A song about Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane preventing looting was way off the mark in a province riddled with corruption and theft
Chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer said the ailing state power utility’s staff would be on standby as South Africans cast their votes on 1 November
The country’s local governments are a drag on investment, a strain on the fiscus and pose a critical sovereign risk
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Vuwani residents are ready to vote, but none of the top three parties is wooing them
The EFF has a stronger online presence than the ANC and Democratic Alliance
Journalists Emsie Ferreira and Lizeka Tandwa chat to Mmusi Maimane, Paul Berkowitz and Narend Singh about the state of the opposition
Angry Atteridgeville residents hurl insults at ‘dysfunctional’ ANC full of ‘corrupt individuals’ as Mabuza fails to placate them with party T-shirts and doeks
An examination of the language the party uses shows that it is echoing right-wing voices the world over in its insistence that those who point out its racism are, in fact, the real racists
One other man was shot dead and two others were rushed to hospital with gunshot wounds