Gauteng’s prolonged water crisis and Premier Panyaza Lesufi’s recent comments — for which he later apologised — about using hotel facilities during outages returned to the forefront as political parties responded to his State of the Province address. The speech did not provide sufficient detail on how the province would end the chronic water shortages, […]

MaQueen Letsoha-Mathae said the state of municipalities was not encouraging

The premier has also vowed that the province will be ready to host the G20 summit

The annual speeches should not be merely hot air but a genuine look at how provincial governments can be overhauled so they work for the people

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Dube-Ncube says province will have 1 000 social crime wardens on the beat