Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu will report back on the audit results of the country’s municipalities for the 2016/2017 financial year
High municipal electricity tariffs pose a serious threat to South Africa’s machinery and equipment manufacturing industries
No fewer than 55 municipalities have been identified as distressed or dysfunctional, says Cogta Minister Zweli Mkhize
Experts from across the country gathered to chart a way forward to bring cheaper energy to South Africa
An inquiry into the finances of the Department of Water and Sanitation has been instituted after it conceded to being billions of rand in debt.
Two years after government promised to solve the problem, sewage sits in yards as pumps stand idle.
Irregular expenditure ballooned by billions of rands as municipal leaders looked elsewhere
The ANC has identified sections of the economy where it will instruct the government to intervene.
For most local municipalities, spending money on entertainment comes a lot more naturally than earning income or complying to budgetary restraints
The former mayor of Johannesburg has warned that projects may not get off the ground.
The party fared well in its municipalities but faces challenges with the new ones.
Unlawful spending rose under Khaya Ngema’s watch and the metro last got a clean audit in 2009.
There is little to show for the money spent on making South Africa’s municipal finances look pretty.
But Minister David van Rooyen’s unimpressive management of funds in the past casts doubt on his ability to turn around dysfunctional municipalities.
The money owed by government departments is still only a drop in the ocean compared to the R104-billion owed by private households and businesses.
Sewage flows because of misplaced trust in local government and co-operative governance.
Most sewerage plants in South Africa malfunction, but officials have been told to back off ahead of local elections in 2016.
Wasteful, irregular spending and incompetent finance departments led to R3.54-billion in unaccountable expenditure in the past financial year.
Insufficient financial records, poor procurement processes and a lack of accountability resulted in R11.6bn in irregular expenditure in 2012-2013.
In the water sector there has been a skills shortage and a lack of the technical capacity, hindering municipalities to deliver on infrastructure.
The massive amount of debt owed to municipalities by the public has become a serious problem, says a minister.
Gauteng is set to get a new metro with the merger of Emfuleni and Midvaal local municipalities and Sedibeng district municipality.
Some of the season’s main strikes may be over but another wave may yet rise to hit South Africa.
Years of neglect in caring for infrastructure networks that enable the delivery has placed many local municipalities on the precipice of a breakdown
Water Sense by Sasol wins the Water Management Award.
Nersa says that municipalities may buy surplus power generated by small energy suppliers without getting a licence for each one.
A serious misunderstanding about the uneveness of the apartheid state has resulted in major policy errors.
At least R81-billion is owed to municipalities for services, says the South African Local Government Association.
The outrage over Eskom’s request to raise tariffs may be better directed at wasteful municipalities, writes Phillip de Wet.
Municipalities have a bad name in business, but choose the right one and you’re set.
Cape Town’s financial boss tells Heather Formby why it did not get a clean audit from the auditor general.
In Kagiso, as in so many other settlements in South Africa, time moves on but the appalling conditions persist. Heidi Swart reports.