South African President Cyril Ramaphosa unveiled Wednesday a plan to revive South Africa's flagging local governments, weeks after publicly criticising the state of the financial capital Johannesburg ...

Municipal elections will decide whether cities are engines of growth or hotspots of failed governance and unemployment.South Africa's upcoming municipal elections will determine far more than the ...

The Select Committee on Cooperative Governance and Public Administration (including Traditional Affairs, Human Settlements, ...

South Africa’s state-owned electricity provider, Eskom, announced in early March 2026 that it would cut off the power to 14 municipalities that collectively owe it more than R110 billion (US$6.5 ...

The Mother City is becoming South Africa’s leading metro for service delivery, with a clean audit outcome for three years ...

South African electricity utility Eskom is running a public consultation on its plan to interrupt electricity supply to around 14 municipalities due to ongoing debts. Figures from the company say ...

Local government in South Africa stands at a pivotal moment in its democratic journey as the country heads towards municipal elections this year. The government is undertaking a review of the 1998 ...

South African municipalities lose R25 billion per annum in water and electricity that they buy but never sell, according to ...

Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. will be allowed to take over the distribution of electricity in South African municipalities that collectively owed the state utility 85.2 billion rand ($5.4 billion) at the ...

Corruption in South Africa’s public institutions has been a pressing issue for the past two decades. From national government offices to local municipalities, stories of officials enriching themselves ...

South African city Johannesburg will host the G20 summit in November - Copyright AFP Roslan RAHMAN South African city Johannesburg will host the G20 summit in ...