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.

Thursday’s State of the City Address in Tshwane should be noted for what it failed to address rather than what it did. Mayor Randall Williams claims to have a data-driven grand vision for the future, but his speech seems to indicate the opposite.

Johannesburg Mayor Mpho Phalatse must place the interests of residents and the city above the competing demands of a rag-tag band of coalition partners when she delivers her maiden State of the City Address tomorrow.

A Moody’s downgrade. Being placed under administration. Billions lost to irregular expenditure. Starving residents living in filth without basic services. A mayor chronically short of charisma and ideas.

under-servicing informal settlements to discourage the migration of new work-seekers to the region, the Western Cape Provincial Government and City of Cape Town directly place the lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable residents at unconscionable risk of disaster.

South African hearts are with KZN. As the torrential rains subside, the havoc wreaked by the floods is becoming clearer. Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have lost their lives and suffered grave displacement.