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Billions Squandered While Residents Suffer

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A thorough analysis of the Ekurhuleni Metro’s unaudited annual report and financial statements for 2024/25 reveals serious shortcomings in governance, service delivery and financial accountability. The report indicates that the Metro reached only 79% of its targets, with 21% completely unmet. This figure may seem acceptable at first glance, but closer scrutiny reveals that the […]

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Emfuleni’s Quarterly Report Demonstrates Decline

Location: News

The report for the fourth quarter of the 2024/25 financial year once again demonstrates the decline of the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging). In the report, the Municipality is obviously grasping at straws in the form of a so-called turnaround strategy, which is not feasible in practice. Instead of focusing on […]

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Ekurhuleni Mayoral Committee Member Unable to Answers Power Outages Questions

Location: News

During Thursday’s council meeting, the Ekurhuleni Metro’s Mayoral Committee Member for Energy, Mzayifani Ngwenya, was unable to provide reasons for why the Wadeville industrial area in Germiston is experiencing frequent power outages. Businesses regularly contact the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) to report power outages. One business has indicated that if the outages persist, it […]

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Bayland Violent Protest Action Condemned

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) notes with great concern the violent protest actions in Bayland, a settlement in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro (NMBM), where residents are protesting the lack of electricity supply. During the protest, the M19 and R75 roads were blocked, and two trucks were torched. The Freedom Front Plus previously warned […]

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Ekurhuleni Residents Receive Massive Electricity Bills

Location: News

This month, the residents of the Ekurhuleni Metro were in for a shock when they received their utility bills because for months the Metro failed to indicate their actual power consumption on their statements of account. The Metro relied, instead, on estimated electricity readings. It is unfair to expect residents to pay massive, unexpected and […]

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Political Theatrics Will Not Save Emfuleni From Its Predicament

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) views the announcement by the Mayoral Committee Member for Finance, Hassan Mako, that the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging) will apply to have another R2 billion of its Eskom debt written off as political theatrics aimed at the 2026 local government elections. According to Mako, […]

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Tshwane’s Service Delivery to Informal Settlements Is Unsustainable

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) has serious concerns about the Tshwane Metro’s ability to sustainably provide services to informal settlements within the Metro. In her State of the City Address on 10 April, Mayor Nasiphi Moya announced that informal settlements will soon be supplied with electricity. She also introduced a new policy for managing […]

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Joy Over Rand Water Agreement Will Be Short-Lived

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) has noted that the Mayor of the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging), Sipho Radebe, is seemingly overjoyed by the resolution of the deadlock between the Municipality and Rand Water over water debt. In terms of the agreement, Emfuleni paid R660 million to Rand Water to […]

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NERSA in the Dark About Ekurhuleni’s Suspension of Fixed Electricity Tariff Charge

Location: News

There is much uncertainty surrounding the suspension of the Ekurhuleni Metro’s fixed electricity tariff charge. The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) can confirm that the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) has not received a formal notification from the Ekurhuleni Metro regarding the Council’s decision on 31 July to scrap this basic charge. This […]

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Victory for DCI Tenants

Location: News

On Friday, 15 August 2025, tenants of the DCI Social Housing facility in Goodwood received written confirmation that their monthly fixed water and electricity charges will be reduced by 75.6% from September 2025 onwards.

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