The first real rainfall has once again exposed what residents across Cape Town already know, the DA-led City is not fixing the stormwater system, it is managing the optics around it.
Serious questions are mounting over the City of Cape Town’s use of borrowed funds, as residents across multiple communities continue to live without basic services despite repeated claims of large-scale infrastructure investment.
The current public participation process on the City of Cape Town’s 2026/27 Draft Budget raises serious concerns about whether residents are being meaningfully informed or deliberately misled.
The State of the Capital Address (SoCA) delivered by the Executive Mayor of Tshwane’s multi-party coalition government laid out the undeniable truth that South Africa’s Capital City is on the rise.
The Western Cape Government wastes Billions of Rands on a meaningless Safety Plan instead of discharging its responsibilities to oversee the transformation of apartheid-imposed conditions of hopelessness on the Cape Flats, where a large proportion of the province’s citizens live.
The ongoing sewer blockages across Wesbank and Philippi are no longer isolated service delivery failures; they represent a full-blown public health crisis that is being neglected by the Democratic Alliance-led City of Cape Town.
The Draft 2026/27 Budget effectively formalises a "City-as-a-Service" model, where the privilege of being a resident is increasingly defined by mandatory, high-cost subscriptions rather than actual service usage.
Speech by Roxaan Vorster, GOOD George Municipality Councillor. Note to Editor: This item was delivered during the George Municipality Council Meeting
Speaker, in less than a year, the City has tabled an adjustment budget in August 2025, again in January 2026, and now in March 2026. Each time, the explanation shifts. Each time, the targets move. And each time, it's sold as being normal, but it's not.
When the Western Cape Government promised in 2012 to upgrade the hospital serving one of Cape Town’s most underserved and violent crime-ridden areas, then Health MEC Theuns Botha said: “The GF Jooste Hospital will be rebuilt on its present site between 2013 and 2016.”