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Johannesburg Plagued by Maintenance Backlog and Poor Financial Management

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The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) warned Johannesburg Metro Mayor, Dada Morero, that the Metro’s growing financial burden and crumbling infrastructure are not facilitating the City’s progress, on the contrary, it is hampering service delivery to residents and ratepayers. The Metro has R72 billion in outstanding debt and a shocking R220 billion infrastructure maintenance backlog. […]

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“RATES CUT” WAS NEVER REAL

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Today’s announcement by the City of Cape Town confirms what many of us have warned all along: the much-publicised 10.2% property rates reduction was never a genuine relief for residents – it was built on a flawed and unlawful tariff model that has now collapsed under court scrutiny.

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Tabling of Tshwane’s Draft Fully Funded Budget for 2026/27

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GOOD welcomes the tabling of the draft 2026/27 for the City of Tshwane. Residents and businesses of South Africa’s capital city can be reassured that the draft budget has been assessed by financial experts at the National Treasury and confirmed as fully funded, signalling the continued improvement of Tshwane’s financial position.

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Cape Town Tariffs: Replace City’s “Redistribution” Charade With Super-Tax on High-Value and Second Homes

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If Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis is serious about protecting lower-income households from higher tariffs, he must introduce a progressive tariff system that spares the struggling working and lower-middle classes and targets those who can really afford to pay.

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Constitutional Court Rejects NHI Cornerstone

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The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes today’s Constitutional Court judgment declaring the Certificate of Need (CoN), as contained in the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act, unconstitutional. This was one of the cornerstones of the NHI. In the matter brought by Solidarity, the Hospital Association of South Africa (HASA) and the Alliance of South African […]

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State Must Find Means to Mitigate Unemployment Crisis

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The increasing number of active South Africans jobseekers to more than 8.1 million adults, together with sustained slow economic growth that is not projected to speed up soon, is a national crisis that is being hopelessly inadequately addressed by the R370 SRD grant.

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Ekurhuleni’s Debt Crisis Deepens While Residents Struggle to Make Ends Meet

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The third-quarter financial report (January to March 2026), tabled during the latest Ekurhuleni Metro Council meeting, confirms that the Metro’s debt crisis is deepening. At the same time, residents are increasingly struggling to make ends meet, with higher municipal tariffs becoming unaffordable for many. The Metro’s collection rate has remained stuck at 85,28%, well below […]

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Revealing the Depth of Tshwane Metro’s Crisis

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The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) expressed serious concerns about the Tshwane Metro’s request to write off a further R1,5 billion in debtors as unauthorised expenditure. The mere fact that this massive amount is labelled “unauthorised” serves as an admission that it was never budgeted for. This exposes the so-called “funded budget”, which the Mayor […]

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We Have Warned of Johannesburg’s Looming Bankruptcy for a Long Time

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For years, the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) warned Johannesburg’s ANC administration that exorbitant salary negotiations and a culture of non-payment would steer the City straight into bankruptcy. These warnings fell on deaf ears, though, and the consequences are now evident. The controversial R10,3 billion salary increase offered to workers last year to avert labour […]

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Treasury Threatens to Stop Tshwane Metro’s Grants

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The Tshwane Metro’s poor governance and substandard administration have led to some serious consequences seeing as the National Treasury (NT) has threatened to stop allocating grants to the Metro. At the latest meeting of the Tshwane Metro Council, a report was tabled proposing a policy on the prevention of unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure. […]

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Abaqulusi Municipality Plan’s to Spend R1,3 Million on IDP Planning

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In its most recent cost framework, the AbaQulusi Local Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal (Louwsburg, Vryheid) earmarked R1,3 million for the planning process of the Integrated Development Plan (IDP). The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) strongly opposes this exorbitant expenditure. The estimated costs for the planning process, as indicated in the 2026/27 budget, include R50 000 for […]

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