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Freedom Front Plus Submits Motion of No Confidence in Koukamma Speaker

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Yesterday (17 September), the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) submitted a motion of no confidence in the Speaker of the Koukamma Local Municipality, Mr Dudley Maasdorp, for alleged misconduct. On 11 September, during a public meeting in Joubertina, he reportedly brandished a firearm, threatened residents with violence and used abusive language. According to reports, video […]

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Resident Catches Mogale City Worker Illegally Dumping Sewage

Location: News

This morning, a Krugersdorp resident caught a Mogale City worker red-handed illegally dumping sewage from a tanker into a storm water drain along Windsor Street in Luipaardsvlei. The resident, a local businessman, notified the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) via WhatsApp, whereafter the party visited the scene. Local businesses later informed the Freedom Front Plus […]

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NMBM Adopts Motion to Hold Individuals Personally Liable for Damaging Traffic Lights

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) successfully passed a motion in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Council (NMBM) to hold individuals damaging traffic lights personally liable for the damage. This motion aims to shift the financial burden of repairing and replacing traffic lights from taxpayers to the guilty parties and their insurance companies. The NMBM […]

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Brakpan Cable Thief Brought to Book

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes the nine-year sentence handed down by the Brakpan Regional Court to a foreign national for cable theft in March this year. Khothatso Adora was found guilty of damaging essential infrastructure, theft of infrastructure and illegal immigration. This Lesotho citizen was caught red-handed on 23 March while he was […]

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Ekurhuleni’s Electricity Tariffs Public Participation Still Excludes Majority of Residents

Location: News

This week, the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) again strongly objected to the Ekurhuleni Metro’s so-called public participation process regarding proposed electricity tariffs. Although the Metro claims the process is lawful, the majority of residents are effectively excluded seeing as meetings are strategically grouped and scheduled to take place at locations that are hard to […]

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PP Requested to Expand Tender Investigation Into Deputy President’s Sons

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) will request the Public Protector (PP) to expand the existing tender investigation into Gauteng government contracts awarded to companies linked to Deputy President Paul Mashatile’s sons. In February 2024, the Freedom Front Plus lodged a complaint with the PP regarding tenders allegedly awarded under suspicious circumstances to two companies […]

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Lephalale Prevented From Using Municipal Funds for Soccer Trip

Location: News

Thanks to pressure from the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) and other opposition parties, the Lephalale Local Municipality (Ellisras) has been prevented from using municipal funds to sponsor a soccer team’s trip to Maseru (Lesotho) to participate in the 2025 Southern African Inter-Municipal Sports Association’s event. The trip would have cost the Municipality a whopping […]

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Has Your Learner Been Given a Tablet?

Location: News

Making promises to children and then letting them down is a crying shame. To make matters even worse, the culprit is the President of the country and his empty promises directly harm these children’s future. In his 2019 State of the Nation Address (SONA), President Cyril Ramaphosa promised that all schools in South Africa would […]

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ANC Violates the Rights of North West Residents

Location: News

During today’s session of the North West Provincial Legislature, the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) pointed the finger directly at the ANC for destroying the environment and thus jeopardising the country’s future. In terms of the Constitution, government is mandated to conserve the environment, prevent pollution and protect everyone’s right to a healthy living environment. […]

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Percy Stewart Wastewater Treatment Works: An Ongoing Health and Environmental Hazard

Location: News

Although the Percy Stewart Wastewater Treatment Works in Krugersdorp has partially resumed operations after years of decay, it still does not comply with legal environmental standards. During an oversight visit to the facility on Friday, the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) discovered that untreated sewage is still spilling into rivers and streams, rendering the water […]

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Who Is to Blame for Johannesburg’s Water Crisis?

Location: News

The blame for the ongoing water crisis experienced by the residents of large parts of the Johannesburg Metro should be laid squarely on the shoulders of the incompetent ANC and its governing partners. Households and businesses have had to get by without water for weeks as the supply schedules are erratic. This state of affairs […]

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Public Participation Process Regarding Power Tariffs Just for Show

Location: News

The so-called public participation process conducted by the ANC/EFF-controlled Ekurhuleni Metro regarding the proposed electricity tariffs for the 2025/26 financial year is just for show and misleading residents. The notice of public meetings issued on 11 September 2025 provides for only three meetings at the Boksburg Civic Centre, the Rabasotho Hall in Thembisa and the […]

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World Views Kirk Assassination as an Attack on Conservative Values and Norms

Location: News

The unprecedented public outcry of shock, grief and anger following Charlie Kirk’s murder two days ago clearly shows that the incident is not merely viewed as an attack on a young man’s life, but on conservative values and norms in general. After years of intense attacks, and at times even domination, by liberal and woke […]

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Ekurhuleni Buried Under Rubbish

Location: News

August’s strong winds uncovered the thinly veiled truth of Ekurhuleni’s growing rubbish problem. Ekurhuleni’s streets, sidewalks and storm water drains are littered with rubbish due to the complete collapse of basic waste management. Open, uncontrolled landfill sites and the incompetence of the ANC/EFF coalition, with their indifferent attitude toward cleanliness, mean residents are exposed to […]

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Mpumalanga Youth Caught in Drug Crisis

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) warned in a Member’s Statement in the Mpumalanga Legislature that the province’s young people are increasingly becoming entangled in a destructive drug abuse crisis, and urgently appealed to the MEC for Health, Ms Sasekani Manzini, to take the necessary steps to address it. This epidemic is not unfolding in […]

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Ekurhuleni Should Urgently Repair Main Reef Road and Put a Stop to Illegal Mining Activities

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) urgently calls on the Ekurhuleni Metro to immediately take action by establishing a multidisciplinary task team to repair the dilapidated Main Reef Road and put a stop to illegal mining activities in the area. A section of Main Reef Road, which runs past the informal settlement Plastic City in […]

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Kagiso Mobile Library: An Accident Waiting to Happen

Location: News

The mobile library in Kagiso, located in the Mogale City Local Municipality (Krugersdorp, Magaliesburg, Muldersdrift), is an accident waiting to happen. Situated in Pillan Street, this library is propped up with iron rods and bricks, rendering the structure unstable and dangerous. During an oversight visit by the Municipality’s Committee on Sport, Arts, Culture and Recreation, […]

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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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Limpopo Company Ordered to Repay R69 Million for Fraudulent Contract

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes the Special Tribunal’s ruling ordering the construction company, Easyway, Tarmac, Pave and Projects CC, to repay nearly R69 million to the Mogalakwena Local Municipality (Mokopane/Potgietersrus). This ruling follows a successful application by the Special Investigating Unit (SIU), which found that the company fraudulently obtained a R167,9 million tender […]

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Freedom Front Plus Plants Tree in …

Location: News

In a symbolic act of protest against the severe decay of roads in the Govan Mbeki Local Municipality, branches of the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) in Secunda planted a tree in a pothole in PDP Kruger Street this past weekend. This specific pothole has been a thorn in motorists’ flesh for months, despite being […]

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