As jobs disappear from the coal belt, Middelburg’s economy is buckling. Unpaid rates, collapsing businesses and stalled transition support are deepening the crisis
The treasury also did not allocate new funds to other struggling state-owned entities such as Denel, Transnet, the Land Bank and the South African National Roads Agency
In this financial year’s budget, Parliament did not allocate funding for the South African Post Office, which is waiting for a R3.8 billion tranche