The councillor has been accused of giving away provincial land for a taxi rank development without following legislation
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Makana’s budget, and those of most municipalities, need monitoring  and the corrupt and wasteful held to account
As a recent court case in Nelson Mandela Bay shows, the city management appointment process should be purely administrative and stripped of politics
Eastern Cape’s head of public works Babalo Madikizela has hit back at Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, saying she had no authority to investigate him
Service-delivery issues, procurement inefficiencies and cadre deployment continue to plague municipalities, according to the Bureau for Economic Research
The municipality has accrued billions of rand in wasteful spending, and more than 6 000 putrid bucket toilets
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The Hawks and the NPA want to boost forensic investigative capacity to get back more money lost to corruption
An investigation into the Northern Cape municipality has uncovered multiple issues of alleged fraud, including nepotism and unauthorised salary hikes
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Danny Msiza and Kabelo Matsepe will become the first politicians to be face charges for alleged complicity in the scandal
The ANC is facing a revolt over the looting of VBS bank, which took money from poor communities, with warnings of electoral consequences in 2021 local elections
Municipalities are in complete disarray, with many of them flagged by the auditor-general for deliberate lack of accountability and tolerance for transgressions by political and administrative leadership while billions are squandered.
Mcebisi Mlonzi is blaming the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) for allegedly providing bad advice to the Amahlathi local municipality
Crackdown follows trend of top officials allegedly looting millions
The regulations form part of cost-cutting measures by the state as it seeks to improve its balance sheet
Top-down meddling by central government flouts the laws and spirit of multilevel democracy
Citizens must be given the opportunity to influence the municipal decisions that affect them
GladAfrica, an engineering company, and the city have been at the centre of allegations of tender irregularities for the past two months
Dr Moeketsi Mosola was accused of flouting the City of Tshwane’s supply chain management policy
This is the latest step the ANC government has taken to the state of improve local government
Disciplinary action is going to be lodged against those responsible – from the bank and the municipalities – for the funds ending up with VBS.
​National Treasury said placing VBS Mutual Bank under curatorship is a better option than liquidation
The mutual bank faces the possibility of going bust after the Treasury instructed municipalities to stop investing with it last year.
The city could run out of water in March and is rushing to get measures such as desalination in place
The fraud and corruption case involving Northern Cape ANC chairperson John Block, which dates back to 2010, has been postponed until next year.