Gauteng’s second-best municipality seems to have a grip on things, but service delivery still falls short, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
There seems to be scant will to rectify mistakes or to hold accountable those responsible for a litany of financial transgressions in municipalities.
A total review of the role of municipalities, structure and capability is needed, not shallow recommendations, writes Andrew Siddle & Tom Koelble.
Naming and shaming poor performing municipalities has helped to drastically improve the financial health of many KwaZulu-Natal municipalities.
Municipalities are confident that pricey World Cup stadiums will be sustainable.
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/ 15 February 2010
KwaZulu-Natal’s uMsunduzi Municipality, incorporating provincial capital Pietermaritzburg, has enough money to operate for just one more week.
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/ 6 November 2009
Concerns are growing that faulty municipal water treatment works that leak sewage are destroying South Africa’s rivers.
Lack of municipal capacity and poor communication by government officials are key contributors to the surge of recent service delivery protests.
Metropolitan municipalities were owed a total of R30,3-billion as at March 31 2009, the National Treasury said on Friday.
The Johannesburg Development Agency goes where private property developers fear to tread — and then make those areas irresistible to investors.
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/ 23 February 2009
A significant portion of municipal employees owe their jobs to political deployment.
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/ 7 February 2009
One of the signatories to a compromise settlement which would end the legal battles over renaming Potchefstroom Tlokwe has reneged on the agreement.
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/ 20 November 2008
An ANC meeting has been called off after a reportedly drunk group of outsiders caused a disruption.
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/ 12 November 2008
Plans by Cabinet to reassign responsibility for the construction of public housing to municipalities could be heading for heavy waters.
More than 60% of municipalities cannot say where their money comes from and more than half cannot provide proof of how they spend it.
The Free State provincial government has taken control of the struggling Xhariep and Mohokare municipalities in the southern parts of the province.
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/ 27 January 2006
The City of Cape Town’s financial management
has received the all-clear despite a number of tender irregularities.