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Councillors to Miss Emfuleni Council Meeting for Second Time Due to Infighting

Location: News

Infighting within the ANC in the Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging) derailed two consecutive council meetings due to a lack of quorum. During the council meeting on 28 May, quorum could not be reached because ANC councillors failed to attend. The meeting was postponed to today (2 June), but quorum could […]

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Phala Phala: Governing South Africa Must Be Given Top Priority

Location: News

(Budget Vote Debate: Presidency) President Cyril Ramaphosa should deal with the Phala Phala matter swiftly and honestly so that the focus can shift to what should be the top priority in the interest of all South Africans: properly governing South Africa. Once this has happened, South Africa’s international relations policy should urgently be addressed. The […]

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Drakenstein Budget Fails to Address Residents’ Most Pressing Needs

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) did not support the Drakenstein Local Municipality’s budget for the 2026/27 financial year, as the funds are simply not being directed towards addressing residents’ most pressing needs. Despite a total budget of R4,5 billion (of which R3,9 billion is earmarked for operating expenditure and only R569 million for capital […]

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Ray Nkonyeni’s Budget Offers No Viable Solutions

Location: News

The 2026/27 budget of the Ray Nkonyeni Local Municipality (Hibberdene, Margate, Port Edward, Port Shepstone, Southbroom) fails to prioritise residents’ interests while offering no viable solutions to the Municipality’s growing problems. The budget is simply not sustainable. It projects a meagre 2,3% in revenue growth, while expenditure keeps rising sharply. Approximately 95% of all revenue […]

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Dipaleseng Plans and Budgets for Failure

Location: News

The 2026/27 budget and Integrated Development Plan (IDP) of the Dipaleseng Local Municipality (Balfour, Grootvlei, Greylingstad) do not meet the basic requirements for sustainable service delivery, as expected by residents. The Municipality is still plagued by regular power outages, sewage spilling into surrounding rivers and unsafe drinking water. This decline has already led to a […]

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Tshwane Can No Longer Ignore Poor Service Delivery in Pretoria North

Location: News

The Tshwane Metro can no longer stand idly by and look on as service delivery deteriorates and infrastructure crumbles in Pretoria North. Being stranded without electricity has become a daily occurrence. Residents experience electricity outages lasting hours almost every week, and often over weekends. This power crisis puts enormous financial pressure on households and businesses […]

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More Than R400 Million Later and the R76 Road to Steynsrus Is Still Not Fixed

Location: News

The controversial R76 route linking Kroonstad and Steynsrus, which has been undergoing repairs for more than seven years, has already cost taxpayers more than R400 million, yet the road surface is still not properly fixed and sections are already starting to crumble again. This week, the Free State Legislature’s joint Portfolio Committees on Public Accounts […]

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Tshwane’s R12,2 Billion Asset Crisis

Location: News

The latest official report by Tshwane’s Strategic Asset Management Committee (SAMCO) reveals that an amount of R12,2 billion is trapped in projects that have already been completed, are partially completed, or for which plans and payments were made long ago, but that were never officially loaded onto the Metro’s asset register. These funds – which […]

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Emfuleni Kicked out of OK Building for Good

Location: News

The Emfuleni Local Municipality (Evaton, Sebokeng, Vaal Oewer, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging) has been kicked out of the OK Building in President Paul Kruger Street, Vanderbijlpark, for good with the owners finally terminating the lease due to the Municipality’s failure to pay rent. The Building housed the Department of Finance, and the owner notified the Municipality in […]

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Masilonyana’s Cash Flow Crisis Warrants Urgent Intervention

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) requested the Free State MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), Mr Saki Mokoena, to urgently intervene in the Masilonyana Local Municipality’s serious cash flow problems. This Municipality, which serves Brandfort, Theunissen and Winburg, among other areas, admitted during a portfolio committee meeting in Parliament that it receives […]

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Tshwane Budget Out of Touch With Reality

Location: News

During today’s reply to the Tshwane Metro’s budget for the 2026/27 financial year, the Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) warned that the proposed budget does not reflect the Metro’s actual financial position and fails to address the serious service delivery crisis. The party did not support the budget, stating very clearly that the document is […]

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Bakka Informal Settlement Electrification Petition Gets the Greenlight

Location: News

The GOOD Party in Drakenstein officially handed over the municipality’s response to a petition to residents of the Bakka informal settlement on Friday, as the landowner agreed to sell the land to Drakenstein for the municipality to provide electricity to residents of the settlement.

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Lesedi Municipality Sells Half-Completed Mayoral Residence for a Mere R360 000

Location: News

The failure of the Lesedi Local Municipality (Heidelberg, Devon and Vischkuil) to complete a mayoral residence project has resulted in the property being auctioned off for only R360 000, which is a massive financial loss. In 2017, the Municipality decided to build a new mayoral residence in Bergsig, Heidelberg, for an estimated cost of R3,5 […]

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Tzaneen Residents Deliberately Misled Regarding Tariff Increases

Location: News

Upon examination of the final Integrated Development Plan (IDP) and budget for the 2026/27 financial year of the ANC-controlled Tzaneen Local Municipality, it is evident that residents were deliberately misled regarding tariff increases during the public participation process. During the public meetings held on 28 March 2026 at Tzaneen Primary School and on 15 April […]

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The ANC Wasted Its Time in Power; This Is Our Time!

Location: News

The ANC has had more than enough time to govern South Africa. And it wasted that time. After more than three decades of ANC rule, the country is on the brink of ruin. Incompetence and corruption have eroded state institutions and caused municipalities to collapse. It is time for everyone who truly believe in our […]

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Constitutional Court Rejects NHI Cornerstone

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes today’s Constitutional Court judgment declaring the Certificate of Need (CoN), as contained in the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act, unconstitutional. This was one of the cornerstones of the NHI. In the matter brought by Solidarity, the Hospital Association of South Africa (HASA) and the Alliance of South African […]

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Mogale City Slaps Residents With Outrageously High Utility Bills

Location: News

Residents of Mogale City Local Municipality (Krugersdorp, Magaliesburg, Muldersdrift) were in for a shock this week when they received excessively high utility bills. The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) has been inundated with calls about the matter and, upon further investigation, found that residents of Kenmare and Silverfields had their bills calculated over 38 days, […]

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Phala Phala: President Ramaphosa’s Back Is Against the Wall

Location: News

President President Cyril Ramaphosa’s back is against the wall. His decision to challenge the findings of the Section 89 Independent Panel, nearly four years later, is clearly a desperate attempt to save himself. His effort to fight back follows last week’s ruling by the Constitutional Court, which removed the protection previously afforded to him by […]

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Freedom Front Plus in Ekurhuleni Endorses Independent Power Producers and Greater Financial Transparency

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) endorses the principle of allowing independent power producers to contribute to the Ekurhuleni Metro’s energy supply, as well as creating a structure through which assets for the proposed independent power producers are entrusted to a reliable third party. For years, Ekurhuleni’s residents and businesses have had to endure Eskom’s […]

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Concerned Over Constitutional Court’s Phala Phala Ruling

Location: News

The Freedom Front Plus (VF Plus) welcomes today’s Constitutional Court judgment on Phala Phala, but is concerned that the Court has, to some extent, eroded the separation of powers by prescribing to Parliament how it should manage its internal processes. The Court ruled that the Independent Panel’s report, which found a prima facie case of […]

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Incompetence Drives Ekurhuleni’s Energy Planning Into Crisis

Location: News

The Ekurhuleni Metro’s latest electricity tariff application to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA) inadvertently exposed a discrepancy of approximately R7 billion in the calculations. This error is not a technical slipup, but a direct consequence of the ANC-controlled Metro’s inability to responsibly manage public finances and critical infrastructure. In its application, the […]

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