Freedom Front Plus

28 August 2025

Proposed Mining at Rooifontein Near Kimberley Strongly Opposed

Location: News

Today’s public participation process regarding proposed mining on Rooifontein farm, bordering on Kimberley, sparked strong public outcry and the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) will keep a close eye on the project. The Freedom Front Plus attended the proceedings. The Kimberley community members who are opposed to the idea come from all walks of life. […]

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28 August 2025

Poor Financial Management Leaves Tshwane Metro With Growing Debt

Location: News

The ANC/EFF/ActionSA coalition government’s reckless financial management of the Tshwane Metro is jeopardising the Metro’s fiscal stability and saddling taxpayers with a growing debt burden. The Metro’s overdraft facility was recently increased from R600 million to R800 million – which is not only a sign of financial mismanagement, but also a violation of responsible public […]

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28 August 2025

Rand Water Reduces Water Supply to Merafong by Another 20%

Location: News

The taps in the Merafong Local Municipality (Carletonville, Fochville, Wedela) are running dry after Rand Water reduced the water supply to the Municipality by an additional 20% on Tuesday. Rand Water had already reduced the Municipality’s water supply by 20% a year ago, which caused widespread water issues at the time. Several residents in high-lying […]

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27 August 2025

High Time Malema Is Brought to Book for Hate Speech

Location: News

It is high time that Julius Malema, leader of the EFF, is brought to book for his hateful and racist remarks, and the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes today’s ruling by the Cape Town Equality Court finding Malema guilty of hate speech. The Court found that statements made by Malema in 2022 in Cape […]

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27 August 2025

National Education and Training Council: Freedom Front Plus Tentatively Optimistic

Location: News

The announcement of the members of the new National Education and Training Council by the Minister of Basic Education, Ms Siviwe Gwarube, is an important step towards restoring faith in South African education. This is not only significant for public schools, but also for everyone engaged in education in South Africa. All South African learners […]

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26 August 2025

Burning Tyres Hazardous to Klerksoord Residents’ Health

Location: News

The residents of Klerksoord in Pretoria North should no longer have to endure the excessive air pollution caused by a tyre recycling operation in the area that is failing to comply with municipal health and environmental regulations. The operation’s air pollution was brought to a head on 16 August when a fire broke out at […]

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26 August 2025

Corruption in North West Wrecks Province’s Economy

Location: News

During today’s debate in the North West Provincial Legislature, the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) emphasised that corruption in government not only results in direct financial losses, but also has a devastating ripple effect on the provincial economy. The National Treasury (NT) calculated that government spending on local suppliers and contractors adds up to 150% […]

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26 August 2025

Kleinfontein Used as Political Pawn

Location: News

The Tshwane Metro’s threats to sue the cultural village of Kleinfontein to comply with the Spatial Planning and Land-Use Management Act (SPLUMA) amount to administrative negligence and a deliberate attempt at political marginalisation. The Metro has repeatedly failed to engage with Kleinfontein’s management to discuss the matter, despite several invitations. The Freedom Front Plus (VF […]

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26 August 2025

Tshwane Mayoral Committee Member Should Be Held Personally Liable for Legal Costs

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) demands that the Tshwane Metro’s Mayoral Committee Member for Environment and Agriculture, Obakeng Ramabodu, be held personally liable for the legal costs incurred by the Metro with its appeal application against AfriForum’s successful court case regarding the Metro’s controversial cleaning charge. As political head of the Department, Ramabodu was […]

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25 August 2025

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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25 August 2025

Time to Close NMBM’s Overtime Tap

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes the latest step to limit overtime payments to employees of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro (NMBM) earning above the R261 000 annual salary threshold. The decision is critical and long overdue. This decision follows the policy directive of the Minister of Employment and Labour, Nomakhosazana Meth, who earlier […]

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25 August 2025

A Missed Opportunity to Abandon Failed Policy

Location: News

The Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau, missed a golden opportunity to do away with the ANC’s failed socialist policies, and replace them with a fair free-market system, by recently introducing new crisis packages and artificial regulations. These failed policies have directly contributed to the current trade crisis with the United States (US). […]

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25 August 2025

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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22 August 2025

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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22 August 2025

We Support the Motion to Devolve Policing Powers to City of Cape Town

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) wholeheartedly supports the motion to devolve policing powers to the City of Cape Town. This motion was tabled to the City of Cape Town Council yesterday and received overwhelming support. The motion requests national government to transfer investigative powers, crime intelligence and forensic laboratory functions (particularly for firearms) to […]

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22 August 2025

Experts, Not Cadres, the Only Hope for Free State Municipalities

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) notes the ANC’s decision to dismiss the mayors, speakers and chief whips of struggling Free State municipalities such as Mafube, Moqhaka, Letsemeng, Nketoana, Nala, Masilonyana and the Lejweleputswa District Municipality. This is a step in the right direction, but if truth be told, the ANC itself is to blame […]

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22 August 2025

Mbombela Keeps Councillors in the Dark

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is deeply concerned about the failure of the Mbombela Local Municipality (Nelspruit, Hazyview, White River, Barberton) to keep councillors informed of critical matters, because it is hampering the implementation of council decisions. As the highest decision-making body, the Municipal Council relies on designated departments to execute its decisions. Poor […]

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21 August 2025

More Broken Than Working Streetlights in Centurion

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) found only 14 working streetlights out of a total of 109 along an important 4,5 km thoroughfare from Jean Avenue southwards to Lenchen Avenue and the Lifestyle Centre in Centurion. This thoroughfare serves as a main route for the residents of four neighbourhoods, namely Clubview, Hennopspark, Bronberrik and the […]

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21 August 2025

Minister Upholds Freedom Front Plus’s Appeal

Location: News

Due to intervention by the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus), a businessman’s dispute with the Gauteng Department of Transport over the renewal of a business licence was resolved in his favour. The Minister of Transport, Ms Barbara Creecy, heard the Freedom Front Plus’s appeal and ruled that the licence must indeed be issued to the […]

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21 August 2025

Illegal Occupation of Lyttelton Town Hall Resolved After Court Order

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes the successful execution of the High Court’s order on 20 August 2025 to stop the illegal occupation of the former Lyttelton Town Hall, located on the corner of Napier Road and Fountain Lane in Centurion. This Hall has been illegally occupied since 2019 and used as a shelter […]

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21 August 2025

PR Mpephu Airport Does Not Benefit Limpopo or Its People

Location: News

The PR Mpephu Airport does not benefit the Limpopo province or its people. This became evident during yesterday’s oversight visit to the Airport by the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) and Limpopo’s Departments of Transport, Community Safety and Public Works. Gateway Airport Authority Limited (GAAL) manages the Airport, which is located in Vuwani, just outside […]

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21 August 2025

Fresh Produce From Namibia: Level the Uneven Playing Field Harming SA Farmers

Location: News

Farmers on the southern bank of the Orange River in the Vioolsdrif area risk their fresh produce spoiling in storage if the issue of uncompetitive imports from Namibia is not addressed soon. Namibia’s prescribed minimum wage for farm workers is lower than South Africa’s. In addition, the state is leasing land to large agricultural enterprises […]

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20 August 2025

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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20 August 2025

Life Esidimeni: We Seek Justice for All Victims

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) has noted the legal opinion obtained by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) recommending that the former Gauteng MEC for Health, Qedani Mahlangu, be criminally prosecuted. The former Director of Mental Health, Makgabo Manamela, will also be prosecuted. In both cases, the prosecution pertains only to the deaths of two […]

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