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Former glory shattered: Residents attend a community meeting in Steve Tshwete Local Municipality, where the economic fallout of Mpumalanga’s contracting coal sector is increasingly visible. Once one of the country’s top-performing municipalities, it is now struggling with falling rates payments, growing arrears and rising indigent support applications as retrenchments increase. Photo: Ihsaan Haffejee
COAL MINE CLOSURES
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Coal’s slow death in Mpumalanga

As jobs disappear from the coal belt, Middelburg’s economy is buckling. Unpaid rates, collapsing businesses and stalled transition support are deepening the crisis

  • Marcia Moyana
  • Thabo Molelekwa
8 min read
Siyathemba local municipality in the Northern Cape.
ANC MUNICIPAL PERFORMANCE

Siyathemba officials accused of irregular appointments as municipality weighs next steps

The council is referring the matter to court but the removal of the two ‘could be detrimental’

  • Aarti Bhana
5 min read
Aspirant: Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is the Economic Freedom Fighters’ candidate for Gauteng’s premier, pitting him against the ANC’s Panyaza Lesufi and the Democratic Alliance’s Solly Msimanga. Photo: OJ Koloti/Gallo Images
ROOIWAL TREATMENT PLANT

Ndlozi: EFF ready to take key positions in Gauteng

The Economic Freedom Fighters look to Tshwane to boost one million voter target for Gauteng

  • Mandisa Makgakga
5 min read