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Despite expenditure on infrastructure such as Eskom’s transmission lines, roads and rail transport, failures persist. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/M&G
ASTRAL FOODS

This is how treasury will write off Eskom’s crushing municipal debt

The treasury also hopes to change the behaviour of local government officials and restore financial management best practices

  • Sarah Smit
5 min read
Small businesses in Khayelitsha have been paying over R3 more for eggs since November . (Photo by Jamie McDonald/Getty Images)
ASTRAL FOODS

Eggs, chicken prices soar: ’Load shedding is killing us’

Small businesses in Khayelitsha have been paying over R3 more for eggs since November

  • Eunice Masson
4 min read
Debt burden: Standerton was once a pleasant town to live in but now the municipality is technically insolvent. Photos: Delwyn Verasamy
AFRICAN TRANSFORMATION MOVEMENT

Ravaged from within, Standerton fights to get municipality working

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

  • Sarah Smit
11 min read
ASTRAL FOODS

Astral’s rule of the roost challenged

Find a food industry in South Africa these days and it appears that one or more players are conspiring to control more than their fair share.

  • Lynley Donnelly
3 min read