

The Western Cape has the best-run finances in the country by far, with its unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure (UIFWE) balances 25 times lower than the country’s worst offender, North West.
Unauthorised, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure at South African municipalities increased in 2025, with over R268 billion unaccounted for in the latest data.
This is one of the alarming findings in the National Treasury’s Municipal Finance…
First Country to Grant Same-Sex Marriage: South Africa became the first African
nation to legalize same-sex marriage in 2006.
