With only 16% of municipalities passing audits, South Africans face failing water systems, roads and governance. The coming elections test not only politics but morality, highlighting a growing call for divine restoration
Nkululeko Dunga is back in the provincial executive after the ANC agreed to an EFF MEC post, marking a major step in coalition politics before the 2026 elections
When institutions lack the capacity, coordination or accountability required to implement such programmes, the distance between constitutional promise and everyday reality inevitably widens
Joburg mayoral candidate Helen Zille said the DA-run Cape Town gained 69 000 jobs in the past three months while Johannesburg shed 49 000 jobs
At a Mail & Guardian post-Sona breakfast held in partnership with the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Embassy of Ireland, analysts turned from the president’s reform agenda to the harder question of execution. Structural unemployment, municipal dysfunction, coalition politics and institutional rebuilding dominated a discussion that placed delivery, not rhetoric, at the centre of South Africa’s political […]
Next local government elections will be a decisive test, Malema says as party launches plan of attack
Councillors approved a deputy mayor position for the first time in the city’s history, with 107 voting in favour
Some Randburg suburbs have gone more than two weeks without refuse collection as Pikitup and striking casual workers trade blame over service disruptions at the Randburg depot
He said the party would be run strictly, with zero tolerance for corruption, ill-discipline and factionalism
SCORE: B+ A remarkable milestone under Ramokgopa’s leadership is an impressive and sustained electricity supply record, with over 196 consecutive days without loadshedding for the year 2025 and over 400 days of intermittent power supply. The department’s Generation Recovery Plan aimed at improving energy availability and reliability has resulted in a 71% average in the […]
Selling too much public property now could limit future opportunities for social housing, community facilities or public projects that only the state can deliver
The people of Johannesburg have cried many tears over the past decade and become accustomed to temporary service delivery ‘solutions’
The Bill seeks to stabilise local government by ensuring that parties which make the composition of municipal councils are a true representation of the will of the majority, Deputy Minister Namane Masemola said
Declining trust in local governments, exacerbated by poor service delivery and political instability, threatens democracy and demands urgent action for reform
Critics wondered whether the convention would follow through with local ward talks and implement recommendations
The city faces grant cuts unless a credible recovery plan is submitted, as tensions grow in the governing coalition
Everyone remembers April 2022, when torrential rains pummelled KwaZulu-Natal and floodwaters ravaged homes, roads and factories. Lives were lost, families were displaced and infrastructure was destroyed. And although every part of the province bore the weight of that disaster, one story in particular has found its way into court. Toyota South Africa Motors (TSAM), has […]
But the Democratic Alliance has said it will boycott the dialogue that will take place over nine months, calling it a waste of time and money
We don’t have a problem of dialogue in South Africa. We have a delivery problem. And no level of polite discussion will fix that
Civil society says officials should break the cycle of grand promises and weak follow-through if Johannesburg is to be rebuilt into a world-class city
