BROKEN CITY OP-ED Joburg’s unfunded budget is a ticking time bomb for essential services 5 min 0 By Julia Fish
By S’bu Ngalwa Government departments must lead by example and pay for City of Joburg services 2 min 0 28 April 2026
GROUNDUP Joburg residents dispute massive electricity bills as City Power tackles broken billing system 4 min 0 By Seth Thorne and Kimberly Mutandiro
JOBURG POWER ‘Stealing cables is easy’ — City Power records 652 incidents in seven months 6 min 0 By Bheki C. Simelane
BIG TURN-OFF Joburg residents in the dark as streetlight repair time skyrockets 7 min 2 By Naledi Mashishi
MUNICIPAL DYSFUNCTION Residents from Johannesburg’s Ground Zero of failure protest at council meeting 8 min 5 By Ferial Haffajee
BOOK EXTRACT Corrupted connections — Mashaba’s EFF deal, Malema’s rent seeking and an elaborate City Power racket 6 min 4 By Micah Reddy and Pauli van Wyk
CIVIC ACTION Communities repair roads, water and power in DIY revolution as City of Joburg falters 10 min 9 By Anna Cox
LIGHTS OUT Powerless in the city — How Johannesburg’s electricity crisis is breaking its people 15 min 0 By Ferial Haffajee
LIGHTS OUT City in the dark — Power cuts choke Joburg’s once-vibrant small businesses 10 min 2 By Ferial Haffajee
LIGHTS OUT Joburg power crisis — almost 100,000 reported outages in 9 months, 5,126 very serious 7 min 5 By Ferial Haffajee
OP-ED City Power-Eskom dispute ends, but deeper cracks in SA’s electricity distribution sector have been exposed 4 min 0 By Chris Yelland
CITY OF JOBURG Electricity tariffs force a choice between food or power, says Electricity Minister Ramokgopa 2 min 4 By Ferial Haffajee
URBAN REVIVAL Revitalising Braamfontein: A vision for a safe, vibrant, and walkable urban oasis 4 min 0 By Bridget Hilton-Barber
BRINK OF DARKNESS Johannesburg faces renewed power cuts threat — Eskom debt dispute unresolved 2 min 2 By Chris Yelland
INTERVIEW Behind the blackouts — the real story of Joburg’s dysfunctional robots 5 min 79 By Ferial Haffajee
GROUNDUP Johannesburg community plays cat and mouse with City Power over illegal connections 3 min 3 By Silver Sibiya
SATIRE South Africa’s estimated time for restoration is currently unavailable 4 min 1 By Shaun de Waal
