Treasury cuts likened to ‘cutting oxygen’ from struggling municipalities
Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi has criticised National Treasury’s decision to withhold funding from struggling municipalities, saying the move would deepen... Read more.
Cosatu warns alliance drift could hand power to opposition
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) in Gauteng has issued one of its strongest warnings yet over the future of the tripartite alliance, saying deepening... Read more.
Case opened against police boss Puleng Dimpane over R48m paid to Vusi Matlala
Acting national police commissioner Lieutenant General Puleng Dimpane is facing fresh legal scrutiny after civil society organisation Public Interest SA laid a criminal... Read more.
Search for top cops to head Hawks, Ipid begins
Government has formally begun the search for permanent heads of the Hawks and the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid), two of the country’s... Read more.
‘Government has gone rogue’: Solly Mapaila alongside SAMWU marchers
Workers in bright South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) t-shirts filled the streets of Pretoria on Thursday, waving placards demanding salaries, secure jobs... Read more.
SAMWU accuses Treasury of ‘sabotaging service delivery’ ahead of national protest
The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (SAMWU) has accused National Treasury of “sabotaging service delivery” by withholding equitable share... Read more.
SACP joins SAMWU protest as alliance rift over Treasury deepens
The South African Communist Party (SACP) has thrown its weight behind the South African Municipal Workers Union’s (SAMWU) National Day of Action, turning Thursday’s... Read more.
Analysis | Knives out for Tshwane city manager
The fight over Tshwane city manager Johann Mettler has come dressed as accountability. It may yet prove to be that. But in the capital city, where politics and procurement... Read more.
Finance minister Enoch Godongwana drawn into Cape Town township funding row
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has been pulled into a fresh funding dispute over Cape Town’s townships after Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka found that service-delivery... Read more.
Inside Cape Town’s 26 582 sewer complaints
The City of Cape Town recorded 26 582 sewer-related notifications in Langa and Khayelitsha between November 2021 and the end of February 2025, exposing the scale... Read more.
