This limited series newsletter offers deep dives and timely updates from the Mail & Guardian’s esteemed politics and elections team. Your essential guide through South Africa’s pivotal elections, enriched by our historic journey from apartheid to democracy. Allow us to connect the past, present, and future of our nation’s democratic evolution.
Two years after government promised to solve the problem, sewage sits in yards as pumps stand idle.
There is now a nifty website that shows what your local council has spent – and what it should have but has not.
SA needs well-designed administrations staffed by well-trained, professional mandarins, writes Ivor Chipkin.
The ANC has received an erroneous bill from the City of Jo’burg stating that it owes more than R3.5m in outstanding rates, taxes, and electricity.
The city has used a financial loophole, skipped tenders, and paid 10 times more than Jo’burg did. Mmanaledi Mataboge reports.
Nathi Mthethwa has warned municipal officials against corruption, saying law enforcement agencies are ready to deal with graft and catch culprits.
The DA-run Western Cape has seen the worst of Samwu’s strike violence while Gauteng has remained largely unscathed. We look at the tale of two cities.
Almost every municipality is corrupt and the growing lack of transparency and accountability is creating networks for graft to survive and thrive.
Municipalities in Gauteng continue to struggle to collect revenue due to non-payment for services such as water and electricity, the premier says.
Cape Town mayor Dan Plato says an ANCYL official played integral part in installing toilets. The <i>M&G</i> quizzed him about the issue.
Hopes of an end to the municipal workers’ strike were dashed on Tuesday night, with no resolution yet on a pay parity deal Samwu said.
A camp to which 700 families are to be relocated is fraught with hazards, writes Niren Tolsi.
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/ 6 February 2009
Meet Harare’s ‘slow jams’ boys — or take the road less travelled. Ray Mwareya reports.
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/ 10 December 2008
The relationship between consumer and clean-up man is an intimate one. He knows things about me I wouldn’t tell my closest friends.
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/ 16 October 2008
And the fourth is on its way as Niren Tolsi reports on the municipal strike that has left eThekwini in tatters.