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Ekurhuleni’s R10.4 Billion Creditors Crisis and Allegations of Falsified Invoice Dates

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The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is deeply concerned about escalating financial mismanagement in the Ekurhuleni Metro, particularly regarding the R10,4 billion owed to creditors, the chaotic payment system and shocking allegations that officials have reportedly asked service providers to alter invoice dates to conceal overdue accounts. According to the Department of Finance’s report for […]

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Gender Inequality Drives GBV

Location: News

Inequality is a key theme of the historic first African G20 Leader’s Summit this weekend. South African women bear a double inequality: The face of poverty is that of a woman of colour, and ours is among the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman.

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Reinstating EMPD’s Media and Public Relations Unit a Step in the Right Direction, but Department Needs Thorough Clean-up

Location: News

The reinstatement of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department’s (EMPD) Media and Public Relations Unit, headed by Lt Col Kelebogile Thepa, is welcomed. It is a crucial step towards restoring transparency and professional communication within the EMPD, especially in light of the serious allegations the Department currently faces. The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) wonders why […]

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Electricity for Backyard Families Is a Basic Right

Location: News

Cape Town cannot continue to celebrate itself as “the best-run city” while denying thousands of our own backyard families the most basic and lawful service, electricity that is safe, individually metered, and compliant with our own policies.

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G20 Summit a Charade Amidst Ekurhuleni Collapse

Location: News

While Ekurhuleni Mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza is prancing around the G20 Social Summit, the people of the Metro live in squalor. The Metro has spent R5 million of its own funds on venues such as the Birchwood Hotel and the OR Tambo Conference Centre without budgetary approval or it being provided for in the Metro’s Integrated […]

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Transnet Saga: Gigaba and Molefe Should Be Removed From Parliament

Location: News

Malusi Gigaba and Brian Molefe should immediately submit their resignations as Members of Parliament (MPs) to the Speaker. They appeared before the Palm Ridge Magistrate’s Court on charges relating to alleged corrupt tenders with Transnet’s procurement of locomotives around 2014. Both are charged, together with three former Transnet executives, with fraud, corruption, and violating the […]

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Decisive Action Needed to Resolve NMBM’s Water Crisis

Location: News

Decisive action and accountability are desperately needed to resolve the water crisis affecting large parts of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro (NMBM). Some areas, including Despatch and Kariega, have been without water supply for 13 days; it is unacceptable that residents do not have access to this essential service. The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) […]

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Informal Settlements Residents Get an “F” “You”

Location: News

Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to editor: This speech was delivered by GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament Brett Herron during today’s interpellation mini-debate on housing plans for Wingfield informal settlement.

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