New Bank Takes Swift Action After Groundup Alerts It to Data Breach
But the Information Regulator is missing in action
Budget
How Renting a Photocopier Helped Destroy a School
A North West school owes over R600,000 after defaulting on rental agreements for two photocopiers and a phone system. Meanwhile 789 learners are left with broken toilets and crumbling classrooms
HRC Confirms Provincial Failure in Northern Cape
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) calls for action be taken at once to remedy the human rights violations resulting from maladministration in the Northern Cape. These violations came to light in a report issued by the Human Rights Commission (HRC) earlier today. The report outlines the systemic collapse of municipal management and service delivery […]
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Mangaung’s Shocking Proposed Water Tariff Hike
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) strongly opposes the Mangaung Metro’s proposed water tariff hikes for the 2026/2027 financial year. Such excessive increases are unacceptable in a metro where water losses are close to 48,6%. According to the draft budget, households in the lowest consumption block (0 – 6 kl per month) face a massive […]
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Fix Community Failures or Face Budget Opposition
The GOOD Party notes the close of public participation on the draft budget and warns the DA-led administration: residents have spoken clearly, and they expect action.
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City of Cape Town’s “Lower Rates Claim” Does Not Hold Up
The DA-led City of Cape Town has repeatedly communicated that “lower rates are coming” because of the 2026/27 Draft Budget. This claim is based on the 10.2% reduction in the rate-in-the-rand.
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More Pain in Store for Hard-Pressed Johannesburg Residents
While Johannesburg residents are already plagued by poor service delivery, potholes, broken traffic lights, and frequent water and electricity outages, they will have to pay even more for the same poor service as from 1 July 2026. The proposed tariff increases of 12,5% for water, 11% for sanitation and sewerage, and 9,01% for electricity far […]
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Same Budget, Same Floods: Cape Town’s First Rainfall Exposes the DA’s Stormwater Bluff
The first real rainfall has once again exposed what residents across Cape Town already know, the DA-led City is not fixing the stormwater system, it is managing the optics around it.
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Cape Town Swimmers Demand Public Pools Stay Open Seven Days a Week in Summer
Dressed in swimming caps and goggles, community members took their protest to the City’s budget public participation meeting
City Accused of Misleading Residents in Budget Process
The current public participation process on the City of Cape Town’s 2026/27 Draft Budget raises serious concerns about whether residents are being meaningfully informed or deliberately misled.
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The Crisis of Housing Delivery: Citizens Deserve More Than Announcements
Speech by Brett Herron, GOOD Secretary-General & Member of the Western Cape Parliament. Note to Editor: This speech was delivered during the interpellation debate on the release of land and the lack of progress thereof
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Tshwane SOCA: Glitz and Glamour While Residents Buckle Under Financial Pressure
The decision by the Mayor of the Tshwane Metro, Nasiphi Moya, to host this year’s State of the City Address (SOCA) at Unisa with excessive glitz and glamour demonstrates a shocking disregard for the Metro’s serious financial predicament. While the Metro is technically bankrupt, thousands are squandered on a vanity project that does nothing to […]
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Tshwane Is Rising!
The State of the Capital Address (SoCA) delivered by the Executive Mayor of Tshwane’s multi-party coalition government laid out the undeniable truth that South Africa’s Capital City is on the rise.
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Sewage Treatment Collapsing in Tshwane
The Department of Water and Sanitation has given the City 60 days from 31 March to come up with a plan
SA’s Only State Transgender Surgery Clinic Can Help Just Four Patients a Year
But Groote Schuur’s Transgender Healthcare Clinic is seeing five to ten new patients a month and new patients may wait 20 to 30 years for surgery
Eastern Cape Villagers Still Waiting for Water From Boreholes Installed in 2015
Joe Gqabi District Municipality says delays are partly the result of foreign funding processes
Taxis Block Streets to Demand Repairs to Potholed Roads
Morning traffic on routes to Jansenville, Addo, Kariega, Gqeberha and Kliplaat brought to a standstill
The Fine Art of Making You Pay More Whilst Telling You You’re Paying Less
While proclaiming to do the opposite, the City of Cape Town 2026/27 budget contributes to a growing unaffordability crisis for working and lower middle-class communities through a fundamentally unfair system of tariffs.
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A “Subscription Model” for Basic Rights
The Draft 2026/27 Budget effectively formalises a "City-as-a-Service" model, where the privilege of being a resident is increasingly defined by mandatory, high-cost subscriptions rather than actual service usage.
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Kokstad’s R137-Million Toilet Project Plagued by Broken Pipes and Lack of Water
Harry Gwala District Municipality says project to replace 1,451 pit toilets in Horseshoe is complete, but GroundUp found many toilets were not working
Maruleng Draft Budget Fails to Strike a Balance Between Administrative Costs and Service Delivery
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) simply cannot support the draft budget for 2026/27, with its accompanying tariff increases, of the Maruleng Local Municipality (Hoedspruit, Kampersrus, Ofcolaco). Residents will find themselves under greater financial pressure with an average increase of 3,7%, while administrative costs and certain capital expenditure will shoot up simultaneously. Key objections include: […]
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Soweto Volunteers Clean Streets as Illegal Dumping Overwhelms Gauteng
The Soulbent Project has dozens of residents converting dumping sites into vegetable gardens
Questions Over Mpumalanga’s Second Adjustment Budget
Mpumalanga’s second proposed adjustment budget for the 2025/26 financial year leaves a question mark hanging over the ANC government’s financial discipline and planning. Being a money bill, these budget adjustments must comply with Sections 119 and 120 of the Constitution. Every adjustment must be clearly motivated and linked to concrete, measurable outcomes. The provincial government […]
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Dipaleseng Draft Budget Fails to Address Residents’ Needs
The Dipaleseng Local Municipality’s draft budget for the 2026/27 financial year makes no meaningful provision for infrastructure upgrades and does not address the urgent needs of residents at all. The draft budget provides for operating expenditure of approximately R439,4 million, but only R16,7 million for capital projects. This means there is practically no funding for […]
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