We will not allow allegations requiring investigation by law to be swept under the carpet. If we don't act to stop maladministration we make ourselves guilty of complicity.

After telling Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) on 22 March 2022 that PRASA had stopped paying 3000 ghost workers on its payroll last December, Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula now says the ghost workers are still being paid.

As South Africa lurches into another spate of electricity failures – for which the current lot in charge of Eskom blame the previous lot, who blamed those before them – it is becoming increasingly clear that expertise is the critical intervention that is missing.

In the early days of the Covid pandemic, as the world locked down and nobody really knew where we were heading, wise people were quick to remind us that crises present fertile environments for new opportunities to seed and flourish.

The City of Cape Town has reneged on its promise to amend its by-law and exempt the Muslim Call to Prayer and Church Bells from the City's definition of noise nuisance.

Cape Town ratepayers are funding the legal defence of the controversial head of the City's rogue SIU unit, Reynold Talmakkies, who is being prosecuted for fraud and corruption related to a City of Cape Town housing contract.

The GOOD Party has asked the Public Protector to urgently investigate irregular staff appointments in DA-led George Municipality after Councillor Donovan Saptoe's formal request to the Mayor to investigate the matter was met with threatening Whatsapp messages from a controversial senior manager allegedly at the centre of the scandal.

GOOD notes the changes made to the Western Cape Provincial Cabinet following a series of scandals and a growing need for the provincial government to get its act together in the interests of the people of the Western Cape.

On Thursday, Mayor Mpho Phalatse delivered her maiden State of the City Address and waxed poetic about all the things she wanted to achieve in her term of office but failed to sketch a clear path as to how she and her administration were going to achieve anything on her wish list.

Three years after promising to amend its by-laws to exempt the Athaan and church bells from the description of "noise nuisance", the DA-led City of Cape Town doesn't want to embarrass itself by discussing the matter in public.