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Pay Back the Money: Agreement Between City of Tshwane and Labour Unions to Address Approved Salary Increases Is Welcomed
I welcome the agreement reached between the City of Tshwane and the labour unions representing city employees to repay the approved, but never paid, staff salary increases from many years ago.
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Quick Explainer: What Causes Changes in the Rand Exchange Rate?
Why the “commodities boom” has made a difference
Pensioners Seize Municipal Vehicle
Eastern Cape villagers refuse to allow the road grader to leave until it finishes fixing their road
Little Amarah’s Death Is a Final Warning
The GOOD Party vehemently condemns the shooting of a 9-month-old baby on the Cape Flats on Tuesday evening. Five people were shot in Bridgetown, Athlone.
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SANRAL Roadworks Stalled for 17 Months
Project to widen R510 in Limpopo has been at a standstill since 2024
Government Promises to Fix Payment Backlog Choking SA Film Industry
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition tells Parliament it will secure urgent funding
Msukaligwa Repeats Governance Failures Year After Year – Budget Remains Unfunded
The 2024/25 financial report by the Auditor-General (AG) on the Msukaligwa Local Municipality (Breyten, Chrissiesmeer, Davel, Ermelo, Lothair) paints a disturbing picture of persistent maladministration and incompetence. The Municipality has received a qualified audit report for the third consecutive year – its status has remained unchanged since 2022. To make matters worse, the same serious […]
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Wesbank Sewer Crisis Worsens
The sewer crisis in Wesbank remains unresolved and has significantly deteriorated, despite sustained efforts by GOOD to raise and address these issues since 2019.
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SCA Rules Medical Negligence Damages Must Be Paid as Lump Sum
This overturns a high court ruling that the health department would provide treatment at state facilities instead of paying cash damages
The Cost of Racial Targets Becomes Clear When a Mere 13 000 Vaccines for 15 Million Cattle Gets Government Jumping for Joy
(Dr Wynand Boshoff, Freedom Front Plus MP and chief spokesperson on agriculture, provides an overview of factors that contributed to the development of the current foot-and-mouth disease crisis) If anything underscores the inadequacy of government’s response to the foot-and-mouth disease crisis, it is last week’s proud announcement that the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) was able […]
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Emfuleni’s Failure to Meet Debt Relief Obligations Exposed
The latest assessment report by the Gauteng Provincial Treasury confirms that the Emfuleni Local Municipality is still failing to fulfil its basic financial and governance obligations. This is despite extraordinary government intervention and debt relief measures since June 2023. Compliance deteriorated further in the reported period (October to November 2025), from 78% to 76%, seriously […]
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From Beacon of Hope to R123 Million Disaster
The Chantelle social housing project in the Akasia area, launched with great expectations in June 2022, began as a beacon of hope but has since degenerated into a financial and administrative disaster. This project, managed by the Housing Company Tshwane (HCT), was intended to provide a viable solution to the growing housing crisis and to […]
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SASSA Suspends 70,000 Grant Payments in Crackdown
Close to 400,000 beneficiaries notified their social grants are under review as oversight tightens
Germiston Power Outage Points to Bigger Crisis
The latest power outage in Germiston, following a fire at the Wadeville 2nd Input Substation on 31 January 2026 that has left thousands of residents and businesses without electricity for days, is not an isolated incident. This is just one in a series of fires and technical failures at substations across the Ekurhuleni Metro in […]
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Gauteng Education Department Lets Learners Down
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) regards the failure of the Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) to pay the Gauteng Small Bus Operators’ Council (GASBOC) – the organisation responsible for transporting thousands of learners to school – as scandalous and irresponsible. Thousands of learners, particularly from disadvantaged communities, are directly affected by this non-payment. According […]
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Ghost Assets: Tshwane Wants to Write off Billions in Taxpayers’ Money
During the latest meeting of the Tshwane Metro Council, the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) rejected the report by the Department of Roads and Transport requesting the write-off of capital assets worth R101 million. Such a decision would mean that taxpayers’ money is officially declared lost – an admission of failure that further undermines the […]
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Fare Increases Punish the Poor
We strongly oppose the City’s proposed public transport fare increases, particularly at a time when fuel prices in South Africa are declining, and cost pressures on operators are easing.
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Lights. Camera. But Very Little Action. Why?
Film sector in free fall as government scores own goal
Mayor Dismisses Millions Squandered in Lekwa as “Typos”
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) scrutinised and questioned the procurement report for the last quarter of 2025 during the most recent council meeting of the Lekwa Local Municipality (Standerton and Morgenzon). This is after the ANC Mayor, Sifiso Mngemezulu, and the Mayoral Committee Member for Budget and Treasury, Thabang Motaung, dismissed excessive expenditure as […]
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Anti-corruption Watchdog Blames Politicians for Dire State of Road Accident Fund
Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts is conducting an inquiry into the fund
Ekurhuleni Squanders Money While Service Delivery Collapses
The Ekurhuleni Metro’s quarterly report for October to December 2025 paints a disturbing picture of squandering, misguided priorities and a metro that spends tax money without delivering services. The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) had warned during the budget process that constant tariff increases are unsustainable, because residents simply cannot afford them. The latest report […]
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Unqualified Audit Does Not Conceal Govan Mbeki’s Financial Distress
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) warns that the Govan Mbeki Local Municipality’s unqualified audit opinion for 2024/25 should in no way be construed as an indication of stability or sound governance. It only appears to conceal the problems of a municipality in serious financial distress, with poor controls, significant non-compliance and an utter lack […]
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Emfuleni on the Brink of Financial and Institutional Collapse
The report by the Auditor-General (AG) on the Emfuleni Local Municipality’s 2024/25 budget revision and recommendations confirms what residents experience daily. Emfuleni finds itself in a dire predicament marked by financial shortfalls, poor governance, inadequate internal controls and ongoing service delivery failures. Despite some progress following previous audit findings, the Municipality’s audit outcome remains qualified. […]
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