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CABINET REPORT CARDS 2025

Velenkosini Hlabisa: Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs

SCORE: B In 2024,Velenkosini Hlabisa quickly brought both structure and order to South Africa’s most dysfunctional tier of government, reading them the riot act over unpaid Eskom…

  • MG Reporter
1 min read
KZN MEC for Cogta Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi and his counterpart MEC for public works Martin Meyer during a media briefing in Durban. Photo: Sandile Motha
ANC GOVERNANCE

KZN government cancels R24 m/year lease in clampdown on costly office rentals

The provincial administration plans to use government-owned buildings to cut down on expenditure

  • Sandile Motha
2 min read
The elections will be held on 1 November. (Photo by OJ Koloti/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
ANC

‘You have no power to postpone elections,’ DA tells ConCourt

The ANC and the DA have blamed the Electoral Commission of South Africa for ‘waking up late’ to request a postponement of the local government elections

  • Lizeka Tandwa
7 min read
Misizwe Zulu was at the centre of an irregular R290 million electrification project in the Msunduzi local municipality in 2012 in which his company, TNT Technology Solutions, was overpaid by R100 million.
AUDIT

Anatomy of a failed municipality

The Msunduzi local municipality in KwaZulu-Natal is on permanent life support and shows no sign of being cured

  • Cameron Brisbane
10 min read
COVID 19

IEC ready for elections, but says Covid-19 trajectory is unknown factor

Legally, the local government election must be held this year and the government hasn’t said why they wouldn’t go ahead, says the Electoral Commission of South Africa

  • Chris Gilili
2 min read
Beyond trust: Umnini residents’ land along the South Coast is being sold to outsiders who build holiday homes. (Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee/New Frame)
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Illegal land sales head to court

Two state departments have done nothing about the sale of people’s land in Umnini by an inkosi –and R2.5-million has still not been accounted for

  • Paddy Harper
6 min read