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A Few Fiscal Rays of Hope Do Not Mean South Africa Is Enjoying Economic Summer Just Yet

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Minister Enoch Godongwana’s 2026 Budget offers a mixture of relief and optimism, but it remains within a framework of poor policy directions and inadequate service delivery. With the constraints of damaging policy such as Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and Affirmative Action (AA) still firmly in place, the economy is growing too slowly to achieve rapid […]

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Budget 2026 High(Low)Lights

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R12 billion in savings identified through TARS programme National Treasury’s Targeted and Responsible Savings (TARS) programme has identified some R12 billion in wasteful and ineffective programs within government. This according to Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana who delivered the 2026 Budget Speech in Parliament on Wednesday. “[In] the Budget last May, we promised that spending priorities …

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Tshwane’s Inadequate Budget and Adjustments Exacerbate Financial Crisis

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The Tshwane Metro Council’s budget for the 2025/26 financial year has been inadequate from the outset, and the latest adjustment budget merely exacerbates the Metro’s financial strain. Residents now face higher tariffs while service delivery keeps deteriorating, as the budget conceals a structural deficit and failed projects. Although the unlawful cleansing levy has been scrapped, […]

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Pay Back the Money: Agreement Between City of Tshwane and Labour Unions to Address Approved Salary Increases Is Welcomed

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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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Msukaligwa Repeats Governance Failures Year After Year – Budget Remains Unfunded

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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

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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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The Cost of Racial Targets Becomes Clear When a Mere 13 000 Vaccines for 15 Million Cattle Gets Government Jumping for Joy

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(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

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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

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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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Germiston Power Outage Points to Bigger Crisis

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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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