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Living in the darkness of a broken city – Johannesburg

We are at the mercy of ageing infrastructure, corrupt municipal workers and city officials who have lost control over Johannesburg

Johannesburg mayor Dada Morero. (Lubabalo Lesolle/Gallo Images)

ANC Joburg regional executive members seek union backing to fight Morero

The South African Municipal Workers Union said it would not march but would ask for a meeting with the president when he visited the city

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi.

Opposition parties dismiss Lesufi’s State of the Province address as bluster without actionable plans

They criticised the Gauteng premier’s water and electricity solutions as misguided

Embrace the magic of the season at carols at tree of light, sing-a-long, and more at the Joburg Zoo Festival of Lights

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Electricity minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa said he had stepped into negotiations between Eskom and City Power and they had been unable to “find each other”. (Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Eskom not pulling the plug on Johannesburg, says Ramokgopa

The ‘challenges’ being experienced in the metro were no different to those in other municipalities, the minister said

The City of Johannesburg granted the R196 million tender to repair Lilian Ngoyi Street after last July’s deadly explosion to a company on trial for defrauding municipal entity City Power of nearly R94 million. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Joburg gave R200m tender to firm facing fraud charges of R94m

The city confirmed that repairs to Lilian Ngoyi Street, formerly Bree, will now be completed in May 2025 instead of December this year

City Power reports that only 11% of Alexandra’s residents pay for electricity. (Fani Mahuntsi/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

The complex issue of illegal electricity connections

The disconnect-reconnect cycle in townships is a reminder that giving people legal, affordable access to power goes beyond technical solutions

Energy minister Kgosiento Ramokgopa said the issue would be resolved by the end of the week. Photo: GCIS

Ramokgopa: Government to address high electricity tariffs

The electricity and energy minister announced a collaborative effort to bring down high municipal electricity tariffs and alleviate financial pressure on consumers

Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa. (GCIS)

Municipalities owe Eskom R78bn, debt projected to soar to R3.1tn by 2050, says Ramokgopa

The electricity and energy minister warned that the debt prevents the power utility from investing in infrastructure

Outages: Excessive demand created by illegal connections and a population increase in unplanned areas cause transformers to fail and explosions at substations, which take time to repair. (Morapedi Mashashe/Gallo Images)

Behind Johannesburg’s load reduction

City Power says it cut power as a ‘last resort’ to save the grid from collapse – and recoup debts

File photo: Khaya Koko

No work done — but City Power blew R93.7m

The state claims that employees colluded in widespread fraud involving a substation project

City Power has been reconfiguring its network to separate residents connected to essential service networks and move them to a different one.

City Power goes ahead with plan to separate Joburg residents from hospital electricity networks

Some residents in Soweto and Brixton have asked the City of Johannesburg to leave their areas on the network for health reasons

Eldorado Park resident Alarnes ‘Larnsie’ van der Nest was shot on a dump site near the incomplete Nancefield Primary School

Death of Eldorado Park resident exposes violence perpetrated by City Power appointed security firm

A security firm on a R57.2 million City Power contract has been implicated in a “reign of terror” in Eldorado Park

File photo by Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images.

A dated logo is but one of the burdens Eskom bears

The entity announced a record loss of R23.9  billion for the financial year ending March 2023