No laughs at Dada Morero’s Joburg circus
The state of the city address was the usual mix of empty promises, missing detail and improbable solutions. Only, now with ‘bomb squad’!…
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Water, water everywhere (in Joburg) but not a drop to drink
Overflowing dams haven’t been enough to save the metro from water throttling. The reason? Parlous infrastructure management…
Coalface collapse: why our municipalities are broken
South Africa’s municipalities are the coalface of service delivery. Their failure puts the country at risk…
Municipal meltdown: now it’s workers’ pensions at risk
South Africa’s municipalities are in arrears with employee pension payments, underscoring a huge governance problem at the local level…
Finally, errant municipal officials must pay back the money
Another day, another story of dodgy government contracts. Local government contracts, to be more specific. The scene is Nelson Mandela Bay, 2014. As court…
The nine lives of the utterly inept Kabelo Gwamanda
Let it not be said that, in South Africa, second chances aren’t abundant. Just look at our politicians: they’ve made an art out of failing…
Mashaba on toxic marriages, and working with a ‘criminal enterprise’
ActionSA has kicked the DA in Tshwane to the curb in favour of the ANC – a party that ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba swore…
Long live the GNU – but make us safe and deliver our services
South Africa, under the government of national unity (GNU), is clearly significantly better off than it would have been had the ANC continued to…
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