Standerton

The Mail & Guardian spent time with the residents of Thuthukani, and heard of how a once ‘beautiful’ town had degenerated.

Lekwa local municipality, which is home to Eskom’s ‘sabotaged’ Tutuka power station, faces rolling blackouts and crumbling infrastructure after governance fell to pieces

Ron Derby, Sarah Smit and Khaya Koko in conversation about Eskom’s ‘sabotaged’ Tukuka power station and why Lekwa local municipality faces rolling blackouts and crumbling…

Athandiwe Saba continues her reporting with a story about the people of Standerton who have taken it on themselves to fix things

Three children are dead. More than a dozen homes have been gutted by fires in the past six months. And, as the Mail & Guardian reported last week, all this could have been…

Local government has long been the site of gross mismanagement and corruption. Both of these deny people their hopes and dreams and can lead to them also losing their lives.

Lekwa Municipality has been without a fire engine for six months — even though half a million rand has been paid for the rental of two

The mayor of Standerton, the mayoral committee and the chief whip were fired on Wednesday, said the African National Congress.

Weeks of violent protest have earned the troubled Sakhile township a visit by senior ANC figures, in the area on a “fact-finding” mission.

ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe was expected to visit Standerton on Thursday to seek a solution to the unrest in the Mpumalanga town

The Sakhile township is holding its breath ahead of a noon deadline on Wednesday for the municipality to respond to protesters’ demands.

Protests erupted once again on Thursday when Standerton’s Sakhile township residents barricaded roads with rocks and other materials.

A general dealer voluntarily evacuated his shop and a Standerton street was closed to traffic, as was a dirt road in a nearby township on Thursday, as water was released from the…