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Mogalakwena Suspends Basic Electricity Charge Increase

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The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes the decision by the Mogalakwena Local Municipality (Potgietersrus) to suspend the proposed increase of the basic electricity charge for domestic prepaid users from R100 to R200. This step offers some relief to residents who are already under severe financial strain. While this is a positive step, the solution […]

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Tshwane Residents Increasingly Targeted

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) in the Tshwane Metro is increasingly receiving complaints from residents facing unfair fines and alleged intimidation. Numerous homeowners are hit with fines of up to R75 000 for allegedly tampering with prepaid electricity meters. In many cases, residents claim that these fines are unfounded and legally questionable. According to […]

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Undeveloped District Six Is a Monument to an Uncaring State – At All Levels

Location: News

Sixty years after District Six was declared a “whites only” area, followed by the catastrophic forced removal of 60,000 people, mostly to the Cape Flats, the process of restitution and redress is making painfully slow progress.

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Good Governance Helps Tshwane Rise

Location: News

In commenting on the draft 2026/27 budget and latest IDP and MTREF reports for the City of Tshwane today in Council, GOOD’s Councillor Sarah Mabotsa, the Member of the Mayoral Committee responsible for Economic Development and Spatial Planning in the City of Tshwane, has noted how “GOOD governance is helping Tshwane to Rise”.

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Tabling of Tshwane’s Draft Fully Funded Budget for 2026/27

Location: News

GOOD welcomes the tabling of the draft 2026/27 for the City of Tshwane. Residents and businesses of South Africa’s capital city can be reassured that the draft budget has been assessed by financial experts at the National Treasury and confirmed as fully funded, signalling the continued improvement of Tshwane’s financial position.

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Mogale City to Abolish Block Tariffs

Location: News

The decision by the ANC/EFF government in the Mogale City Local Municipality (Krugersdorp, Magaliesburg, Muldersdrift) to revert to a more affordable electricity tariff structure is a major victory for the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus). Over the past months, Freedom Front Plus councillors strongly objected on several occasions during council meetings to the block tariff […]

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Emakhazeni’s Smart Meter Chaos

Location: News

Residents of the Emakhazeni Local Municipality (Belfast, Machadodorp, Dullstroom, Waterval Boven) are experiencing serious financial and other hardships due to the flawed roll-out of new smart electricity meters. The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is aware of numerous complaints about prepaid units running out too fast, and power being disconnected suddenly and without any warning. […]

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Emfuleni’s Failure to Meet Debt Relief Obligations Exposed

Location: News

The latest assessment report by the Gauteng Provincial Treasury confirms that the Emfuleni Local Municipality is still failing to fulfil its basic financial and governance obligations. This is despite extraordinary government intervention and debt relief measures since June 2023. Compliance deteriorated further in the reported period (October to November 2025), from 78% to 76%, seriously […]

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Johannesburg Sabotages Solar Users

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) strongly condemns the Johannesburg Metro’s intention to force residents with prepaid meters who have invested in solar power to switch back to conventional meter readings and billing systems. Should the ANC-led Metro administration proceed with this plan, it may be time to approach the courts. This amounts to consumer […]

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Ekurhuleni Call Centre Collapses

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is extremely concerned about the latest quarterly report confirming that the Ekurhuleni Metro’s call centre – the Metro’s primary service-delivery hotline – has collapsed and is failing residents in their hour of need. According to the Department of Service Delivery Coordination, the Metro receives more than 100 000 calls […]

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Residents Pay the Price for Mbombela’s Failure to Replace Faulty Electricity Meters

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is inundated with complaints from residents who are receiving fines because the Mbombela Local Municipality (Nelspruit, Barberton, White River) has failed to replace faulty prepaid electricity meters that the Municipality itself bypassed. The fines stem from the Municipality’s tariff policy, which treats any form of bypassing as tampering – […]

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Electricity for Backyard Families Is a Basic Right

Location: News

Cape Town cannot continue to celebrate itself as “the best-run city” while denying thousands of our own backyard families the most basic and lawful service, electricity that is safe, individually metered, and compliant with our own policies.

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Emfuleni’s Dysfunctional Smart Meters

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) submitted a motion regarding malfunctioning BXC smart meters in the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging), which will be tabled to the Council on 27 November. BXC is a national company that supplies smart meters to various municipalities. The party has received numerous complaints from residents […]

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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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Contractor Cancels Emfuleni’s Financial System Due to Non-payment

Location: News

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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Ekurhuleni Imposes Unfair Requirements on Residents

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes the Ekurhuleni Metro’s decision to abolish the reconnection fee for stolen power cables – a significant victory for which the party fought long and hard. However, the new process and requirements for cable replacement are unnecessarily time-consuming and may further inconvenience residents already affected by power outages. On […]

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Emfuleni Favours Defaulting Residents

Location: News

The decision by the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging), to replace the conventional and prepaid electricity meters of residents who diligently settle their electricity bills with smart meters, needs to be reconsidered. The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) is not opposed to the installation of smart meters, but believes that defaulters […]

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Tshwane Budget: From Deficit to Delivery

Location: News

GOOD Speech by Sarah Mabotsa ,GOOD City of Tshwane Councillor and MMC for Economic Development and Spatial Planning 29 May 2025 *Note to editor: This speech was delivered by GOOD Tshwane Councillor and MMC for Economic Development and Spatial Planning, Sarah Mabotsa, during today’s Budget Debat e. The GOOD party is proud to be able […]

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Budget 2.0: Relief Secured, but the Fight Continues

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GOOD Statement by Anton Louw ,GOOD City of Cape Town Councillor 28 May 2025 Today, we mark an important, though partial, victory for the people of Cape Town. The City has released amendments to its Draft Budget. While the increases remain steep and significant challenges lie ahead, the initial changes are clear evidence that public […]

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