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FILE: Municipalities have been buckling under pressure with more and more South Africans unable to foot their service bills due to the continued decline of the economy. Picture: Supplied.

Municipalities

Expert: Municipal-owned entities weakened by internal inefficiencies

By Theto Mahlakoana

Organisations such as Johannesburg's City Power and Rand Water are meant to not only provide services to residents but are also historically cash injectors in...

  • FILE: Gundo Maswime is a lecturer in the University of Cape Town’s civil engineering department, and he said poor maintenance of aging infrastructure was to blame. Picture: Supplied.

    Expert: Poor infrastructure, maintenance to blame for water supply crisis

    Residents in parts of the North West have been met with regular water cuts and sub-standard water coming out of their taps but the crisis is not limited to that province.

    191 days ago
  • FILE: Samwu members protest in Pretoria on 1 June 2021. Picture: @SAMWUnion/Twitter

    Samwu mulls strike after failed negotiations with bargaining council

    The union said the negotiations took a turn after Samwu and the Independent Municipal and Allied Trade Union received an offer.

    321 days ago
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    Pay back the money: Salga to consultants who failed to do work at municipalities

    Salga said it is disappointed with the deteriorating level of accountability as shown in the Auditor General report for the year 2019/2020 which was released on Wednesday.

    322 days ago
  • FILE: Eskom CEO André de Ruyter. Picture: Eyewitness News.

    Eskom: Municipalities owe us R35bn and we want that money

    The power utility presented the state of its systems at Megawatt Park on Monday.

    430 days ago
  • FILE: Supra Mahumapelo announces his retirement as North West premier at Luthuli House in Johannesburg on 23 May 2018. Picture: @MYANC/Twitter

    Cabinet pleased with progress in NW after most depts placed under administration

    This despite several reports suggesting administrators were abusing state funds.

    531 days ago
  • FILE: An Eskom worker working on a power cable. Picture: EWN

    CoCT concerned about increasing attacks on electricity teams from public

    The municipality said it was alarmed at the physical attacks on staff and verbal abuse of officials while on duty.

    539 days ago
  • FILE: The Mahikeng local municipal council. Picture: @MahikengLM/Twitter

    12 North West municipalities under threat of being placed under administration

    Eyewitness News has seen a report from the provincial government showing its intention to invoke Section 139.

    591 days ago
  • Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu. Picture: @AuditorGen_SA/Twitter

    Makwetu: Municipalities need to plan better, stop spending money they don’t have

    Makwetu joined the likes of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Tuesday to address the National Council of Province (NCOP)’s local government week virtual session.

    618 days ago
  • Cooperative Governance MEC Lebogang Maile. Picture: @GDCoGTA/Twitter

    Maile: GP municipalities lost more than R8.6m in revenue collection in 4 months

    MEC Lebogang Maile has led a briefing on the state of municipalities in the province amid calls for public office bearers to come clean about how government money is being spent.

    624 days ago
  • Mogale City Local Municipality employees were protesting against a lack of personal protective equipment on 25 May 2020. Picture: Supplied.

    Clean audits in municipalities don’t equate to quality service, new study finds

    A new study by the Public Affairs Research Institute (Pari) has revealed that instead, a clean audit does not give an indication of the extent to which households especially the poor are able to afford and access basic services.

    630 days ago
  • Deputy Cogta Minister Parks Tau. Picture: @NationalCoGTA/Twitter.

    Placing municipalities under administration failing to stop rot, MPs told

    Deputy Cogta Minister Parks Tau made the admission on Tuesday night while the committee was being briefed on government interventions to bring crisis-hit municipalities back from the brink.

    660 days ago
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    Eskom to cut power to 5 NC municipalities over failure to settle debts

    Collectively, the municipalities owe the struggling state-owned entity over R273 million in electricity fees.

    682 days ago
  • FILE: Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu. Picture: GCIS

    Makwetu criticises KZN municipalities after 'no change' in last audit outcome

    Irregular expenditure among the country's municipalities has increased to R32 billion in the 2018/19 financial year.

    687 days ago
  • FILE: Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu. Picture: EWN.

    Some Limpopo municipalities still reeling impact of VBS losses, says Makwetu

    Service delivery was also affected in these municipalities, with the Makwetu adding that cost-containment measures and recovery plans were introduced in the hope of recovering from the 'huge financial loss'.

    687 days ago
  • Parliament ahead of Sona 2020. Picture: Twitter/ParliamentofRSA

    Opposition parties weigh in on Ramaphosa’s plan to fix struggling municipalities

    The president used part of that speech to address the state of the nation's towns.

    826 days ago
  • MPs stit in the House. Picture: YouTube

    Municipalities owed over R100bn, Parliament told

    National Treasury chief director TV Pillay told MPs the worst-performing municipalities were also owed a R150 billion in unpaid debt, and this had a serious impact on revenues.

    923 days ago
  • The Amahlathi Local Municipality logo. Picture: amahlathi.gov.za

    Law meant to prevent collapse of municipalities seldom used, says report

    A Pari study on Section 139 interventions, which are implemented when there are financial crises in municipalities, shows that the legislation is seldom used, leading to the total collapse of municipalities.

    958 days ago
  • FILE: Western Cape Local Governamner MEC Anton Bredell. Picture: Bertram Malgas/EWN

    Bredell: Municipalities had no choice but to hike tariffs

    Western Cape Local Government MEC Anton Bredell said that the increased population growth has added pressure on municipal infrastructure.

    1053 days ago
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