UNCOOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE ‘Service delivery mess’ — Nelson Mandela Bay fails to spend R152m of maintenance budget 3 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
RELIEF FUND R1.25bn disaster relief funds to be deployed to hardest-hit areas 6 min 0 By Kristin Engel
PARLIAMENT Another cold front expected for Western Cape as Parliament hears how Eastern Cape reels from deadly deluge 5 min 0 By Victoria O’Regan
PARLIAMENT Auditor-General sounds alarm on governance crisis in SA’s biggest cities, gives Cape Town the thumbs up 5 min 6 By Victoria O’Regan
PARLIAMENT 'Real people drawing fraudulent salaries' — crackdown looms on public sector ghost employees 4 min 15 By Victoria O’Regan
EASTERN CAPE MAYHEM Why I fled Makhanda — fired Cogta’s Mr Fixit says his life was threatened 6 min 8 By Estelle Ellis
LOCAL GOVERNMENT Make municipalities work by appointing qualified staff — Cogta’s Hlabisa 5 min 3 By Suné Payne
INTERACTIVE MAPPING How’s your municipality faring? A visual breakdown of the latest municipal audits 2 min 0 By Victoria O’Regan
FESTIVE SEASON TRAGEDY Call for institutional oversight at initiation schools as Eastern Cape death toll passes 25 3 min 12 By Lisakanya Venna
FISCAL OVERSIGHT Cogta minister vows to strictly monitor R1.44bn in disaster relief funds allocated to municipalities 6 min 1 By Julia Evans
THE INTERVIEW ‘Time to pay up,’ Cogta Minister Hlabisa tells municipalities as government reviews funding models 6 min 7 By Suné Payne
LAND DISPUTE Tongaat Hulett granted interdict in battle over disputed land amid community claims and tensions 8 min 7 By Chris Makhaye
ROUGH CUTS Cogta’s axeing of community workers likely to plunge people into instant poverty, say unions 4 min 7 By Naledi Sikhakhane
SEASON OF TRAGEDY Hlabisa calls for urgent action, moots initiation suspension as deaths linked to traditional practise rise 4 min 8 By Lisakanya Venna and Estelle Ellis
BUDGET VOTE SPEECH Municipalities have to function, emphasises Hlabisa as critics question Cogta plans 4 min 0 By Velani Ludidi
CHILD PROTECTION WEEK OP-ED Early childhood development — moving beyond departmental silos 4 min 3 By Tshepo Mantjé
MUNICIPAL DYSFUNCTION Western Cape’s Kannaland leaders summoned to Parliament after virtual meeting no-show 3 min 3 By Suné Payne
PERFECT STORM AFTERMATH ‘We have lost everything,’ say Tshelimnyama residents after repeated floods ravage KZN 6 min 1 By Naledi Sikhakhane
PUBLIC HEALTH DYSFUNCTION City Power ditches plan to cut Charlotte Maxeke hospital’s electricity over unpaid R41m bill 3 min 6 By Lerato Mutsila
GROUNDUP EC municipality head of good governance embroiled in alleged tender scandal worth R3.5-million 2 min 0 By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp
