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Elections 2026: Amahlathi municipality is doing better on paper but residents yet to see the benefits

Infrastructure projects grind to a halt

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Residents of Amabele are waiting for their road to be paved as promised. Photos: Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Amahlathi Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape has been getting better marks from the Auditor-General in the past two years.
But employee costs are higher than the income it gets from rates and service charges.
The municipality remains wholly dependent on national grants and subsidies to provide services.
Several infrastructure projects, which will benefit residents, seem to have stalled.

Nearly nine years after construction began, a sports complex in Mlungisi township outside Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape has still not been handed over to the community.
The project is one of several under Amahlathi Local Municipality that have stalled or been delayed despite…

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