Property Owners Are Misreading the Law, Argues Cape Town Mayor
Commercial property owners are challenging the City’s budget in court, but the mayor argues they are selectively interpreting the law
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Mamelodi Shack Dwellers Given Stands a Decade Ago Still Live Without Services
Skierlik lacks waste collection, sewage, electricity and potable water
College Tries to Evict 27 Families to Make Way for Students
At a protest Ekurhuleni West students demanded the eviction of the families in “24 hours”
Crèches Battle Complicated Registration Process
More than half of Cape Town’s Early Childhood Development centres are unregistered
Lesotho Power Utility Under Scrutiny for Irregular R1.2-Million Purchase of Cable From SA
Lesotho parliamentary committee uncovered serious irregularities during a surprise visit to a Qwaqwa-based company
Explainer: Cape Town’s “Pro-poor” Budget and Its Legal Challenge
Large commercial property owners take aim at the City’s revenue plan
Former Rail Line Occupiers Demand Electricity
Protesters blocked the R300 in Cape Town on Thursday
Heidelberg Beer Festival Eviction Welcomed
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes the Gauteng High Court’s ruling ordering Heidelberg Beer Festival CC to vacate the premises of the Heidelberg Heritage Museum (also known as the Heidelberg Transport Museum) due to illegal occupation, unpaid debt and safety concerns. The party had urged the Lesedi Local Municipality (Heidelberg, Ratanda, Devon, Impumelelo) to […]
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Khayelitsha Informal Settlements Demand Electrification
Community activists want the City and Eskom to form a comprehensive team to electrify almost a dozen settlements
Carletonville Left in the Dark for More Than a Month
Small businesses and residents are suffering after prolonged power cuts
We Refuse to Support Flawed Council Item
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) will not be coerced into supporting the Ekurhuleni Metro’s budget, which the party already rejected. The Freedom Front Plus indicated during a council meeting on Thursday, 31 May, that it would not support the 2025/26 financial year’s budget, which was adopted in May this year. The budget was tabled […]
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Contractor Cancels Emfuleni’s Financial System Due to Non-payment
The Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging) has sunk even deeper into the quagmire as the contractor BCX Solar, which manages the Municipality’s financial system, cancelled its services due to non-payment. Emfuleni paid the R3,6 million licence fee, but failed to settle the system’s maintenance fees. With the financial system down, no […]
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Merafong Mayor Promises to Restore Welverdiend’s Power
The Mayor of Merafong Local Municipality (Carletonville, Fochville, Wedela), Ms Nozuko Best, has undertaken to restore electricity supply to Welverdiend by Sunday (3 August). Residents have not had power for 33 days. This undertaking was made during a heated council meeting where the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) put significant pressure on her to remedy […]
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Good Party Joins Litigation Against Unaffordable Cape Town Tariffs
The City of Cape Town’s scheme linking tariffs to property values is illegal, unfair, and cloaked in lies about redistributive justice. It is illegal because the Local Government Municipal Systems Act dictates that a municipality’s tariff policies must reflect the principle of usage. In other words, you pay for the services you receive.
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Is Electricity Affordable in South Africa?
Working class communities in South Africa are continuing the tradition of shutting down their neighbourhood in protest against high electricity prices.
Hundreds of Households in Kariega Left in the Dark
Residents believe they are being targeted unfairly for “load reduction”
Millions Were Spent to Relocate These Families, and yet They Still Live in Squalor
Gauteng Department of Human Settlements spent R78-million on plans that never materialised
Makhanda: An Iconic South African City Collapses
Roads, water supply, electricity supply and finances are in disarray
Armed Banditry Is Becoming a Crisis in Nigeria: Why Fixing the Police Is Key
The fragile state of Nigeria’s police contributes to the persistence of insecurity, particularly banditry, in the northern region.
Hawks Investigation Into City Power Welcomed
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes The Hawks’ investigation into possible irregularities at City Power in the Johannesburg Metro. During the multi-party coalition government, of which the Freedom Front Plus was a partner (2016 to 2021), it became evident that City Power was failing to properly maintain Johannesburg’s electricity network. The party is, therefore, […]
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No Electricity or Water in Welverdiend
By tomorrow (29 July), the residents of Welverdiend in the Merafong Local Municipality (Carletonville, Fochville, Wedela) will have been without electricity for exactly one month, and now their taps are running dry as well. A water supply line from Rand Water to Merafong burst last Friday and reservoirs are basically empty. Although the water pipe […]
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We Reject NMBM’s Debt Amnesty
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) rejects the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro’s (NMBM) decision to write off up to 50% of households and businesses’ overdue municipal debt through an amnesty programme. This sends the wrong message to law-abiding taxpayers and may encourage non-payment. All residents with overdue accounts can apply for amnesty. A deposit of […]
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Students Left in the Dark as Nelson Mandela Bay Cuts Power for Unpaid Bills
This is part of the municipality’s bid to recover R17-billion in unpaid electricity bills across its 60 wards
Emfuleni Could Be Placed Under Full Administration
The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes the report submitted by the Gauteng Legislature’s Committee for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) to the Legislature on the total collapse and ongoing financial troubles of the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging). The report, covering the period from 2016–2025, clearly shows that Emfuleni’s […]
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