A profound sense of despair and simmering anger has taken hold in this historic Free State town, as a catastrophic collapse in basic service delivery pushes residents and local businesses towards a breaking point. What was once sporadic inconvenience has devolved into a relentless cycle of darkness and thirst, with endless electricity outages and chronic…

Gauteng Education MEC, Mr. Matome Chiloane, announced today that the Department has made substantial and accelerated progress in resolving the critical annual challenge of placing learners for the 2026 academic year. With schools set to reopen on 14 January 2026, the number of unplaced Grade 1 and Grade 8 learners has been drastically reduced to 4,858. This…

In a significant administrative concession, City Power has announced a six-month extension to its controversial mandate requiring non-vending prepaid residential customers to switch to post-paid billing systems. The new deadline, now set for 30 June 2026, replaces the original year-end cutoff of 31 December 2025, granting hundreds of thousands of households a much-needed breather to navigate…

The air in Parliament’s committee corridor is thick with a tension that rivals that of the most heated budget debates. Here, however, the currency is not rand, but truth—or at least, competing versions of it. The newly constituted Ad Hoc Committee on the Infiltration of the Justice System, a creature born of overwhelming public pressure…

 In the heart of South Africa’s industrial and logistical hub, a distinct sense of pragmatic calm has begun to settle over the City of Ekurhuleni. This shift is widely attributed to the steady, hands-on leadership of its Mayor, Nkosindiphile Xhakaza, whose methodical and visible approach to governance is gradually rebuilding public trust and instilling a renewed…