2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (361+ words) Municipal failure is fuelling our national economic crisis South Africa cannot achieve the economic growth it desperately needs while its cities and towns struggle to provide the infrastructure and services on which businesses and households depend, says a new analysis…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (301+ words) BLSA CEO’s Weekly Newsletter – Reform is moving faster than business confidence Last week gave us plenty of signs that reform is moving forward, but business confidence is far behind. That gap reflects the path we still must follow to turn…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (418+ words) EFF CONGRATULATES MEC NKULULEKO DUNGA ON HIS OUTSTANDING FINANCIAL LEADERSHIP IN GAUTENG Monday, 07 September 2026. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) congratulates Gauteng MEC for Finance, Commissar Nkululeko Dunga, on sustaining a clean audit outcome for the 2025/26 year. The significant progress achieved…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (666+ words) Johannesburg is the single most important metro nationally in terms of tax generation, producing 21.8% of the personal income tax in South Africa and about 11% of the country’s jobs are in the city, with 1.915-million people employed there. About 5.9-million people…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (892+ words) The ANC has issued its election manifesto, and it contains scores of specific promises. Here is a quick dive into how the ANC has recently performed in some vital areas of municipal management. After all, five years (and certainly 100 days)…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1686+ words) CDE MEDIA RELEASE | FIXING JOBURG’S BROKEN BUDGET- A FISCAL FICTION CDE warns that the non-payment of rates and utility bills, rising costs and collapsing infrastructure investment are pushing South Africa’s most important city into a dangerous financial spiral. Johannesburg’s budget…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (543+ words) We can’t fix SA if we don’t fix Joburg 23 August 2016, Sunday Times South Africa cannot restore growth, expand opportunity and attract investment while Johannesburg continues its disastrous decline. Preventing the collapse of the city must become a national priority. Cities…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (272+ words) Hill-Lewis: The ANC cannot be trusted to fix what it has broken The ANC’s manifesto asks South Africans to believe that the same party that has presided over the collapse of municipalities across the country will suddenly fix them again…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (314+ words) COSATU notes with deep concern the rise of far-right wing vigilante and tribal groupings The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) notes with deep concern the rise of far-right vigilante, racial and tribal groupings that pose a serious threat…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1553+ words) IF JOHANNESBURG CANNOT BE FIXED, CAN WE FIX SOUTH AFRICA? Johannesburg’s multiplying crises are no longer simply a local government problem. South Africa cannot restore growth, expand opportunity and attract investment while Johannesburg continues its disastrous decline. This is the…...