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Emfuleni Is Failing Major Industries and Businesses

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The Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging) is exacerbating the financial strain on major industries and businesses through its failure to pay service providers and conclude service agreements with new suppliers on time. Meteronline (MOL), the company responsible for electronically taking electricity consumption readings and automatically transmitting it to the Municipality’s billing […]

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Tshwane Multi-Party Coalition: Year of Exceptional Growth and Good Governance

Location: News

The GOOD Party congratulates the multi-party coalition government of the City of Tshwane on the tremendous achievements recorded during the past 12 months since being elected to office by the Tshwane Council in October 2024.

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Emfuleni Municipal Manager Should Resign

Location: News

The ineptitude of the Municipal Manager of the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal River, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging), April Ntuli, and his failure to properly manage this Municipality should no longer be tolerated. The time has come for him to resign. On 31 March this year, the Municipal Public Accounts Committee (MPAC), on which the Freedom […]

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Freedom Front Plus Documentary on Kleinfontein Sets the Record Straight

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) today released a documentary film to shed light on Kleinfontein, a self-sustaining Afrikaner community near Pretoria. Kleinfontein is clearly being targeted by a hostile Tshwane Metro Council and other political parties. The Tshwane Metro recently increased the community’s property taxes from approximately R6 000 to R7 000 per month […]

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Johannesburg Cable Theft Requires Urgent Solutions

Location: News

The ongoing cable theft in the Johannesburg Metro should no longer be tolerated, as it paralyses businesses’ operations and disrupts residents’ lives. Urgent solutions must be found for this type of crime. Between July 2024 and March 2025, City Power suffered losses of R114 million as a direct result of cable theft. This is a […]

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Eskom Tariff Blunders and “Solar Tax” Risk Punishing Households

Location: News

South Africans are bracing for another round of unexpected electricity price hikes after the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) admitted to errors in its revenue calculations for Eskom. The correction will allow Eskom to recover R54 billion over the next three years, pushing tariffs well above previously announced levels. Instead of the 5.36% …

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Tshwane Speaker Disregards Sinkholes

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is concerned about the conduct of the Tshwane Metro Council’s Speaker, Mncedi Ndzwanana, who is allegedly bending rules to accommodate the ruling coalition. This resulted in the abrupt termination of the Freedom Front Plus’s participation in an important debate on the sinkhole crisis in the Metro. Although the party […]

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Ekurhuleni Has to Ensure Transparency With Tariff-Related Participation Process

Location: News

Following pressure from the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus), the Ekurhuleni Metro’s Mayoral Committee Member for Finance, Jongizizwe Dlabathi, acknowledged that a notice for a planned public participation meeting about municipal tariffs on 13 September in Brakpan was mistakenly sent out and that the Metro had not officially approved it. This acknowledgment means that the […]

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Germiston Residents Left in the Dark

Location: News

The Ekurhuleni Metro’s failure to do proper long-term planning is the root cause of the recent power outage that paralysed households and businesses in Germiston North. The outage, triggered by the theft of the Croydon 132 kV cable supplying power to the primary substation in Germiston North, left more than 20 suburbs without electricity last […]

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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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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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Merafong Mayor Toots Own Horn as Rubber Bullets Rain Down

Location: News

While the Mayor of the Merafong Local Municipality (Carletonville, Fochville, Wedela), Nozuko Best, boasted about improved service delivery in her 2025 State of the City Address, police were forced to use rubber bullets to disperse protesting community members outside the Carletonville Civic Centre. The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) suspects tempers would have flared even […]

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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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Who Is to to Blame for Free State Municipalities’ Persistent Debt Crisis?

Location: News

The blame for Free State municipalities’ staggering debt levels can only be laid at the door of the ANC for its decades of financial mismanagement, poor policy and misguided priorities. Meanwhile, residents have to shell out even more for municipal services that are simply not delivered. Based on the Free State Treasury’s briefing of the […]

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Ekurhuleni Should Not Let Its Current Bank Balance Lull It Into a False Sense of Security

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) warned the Ekurhuleni Metro against begin lulled into a false sense of security by its current bank balance of R1,1 billion, which equates to 21 days of operating costs. The figure was disclosed in the fourth quarterly report of the 2024/25 financial year. The figure is misleading, though, as […]

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