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Promises: Parties pledge to improve municipal water and sanitation infrastructure, repair leaks. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy
ELECTIONS

Fixing SA’s broken municipalities

As voters prepare to head to the polls, major political parties have unveiled competing manifestos to fix South Africa's collapsing municipalities, restore crumbling…

  • Lunga Mzangwe
  • Loyiso Sidimba
  • Nkateko Joseph Mabasa
  • Sheree Bega
8 min read
Grim: Sewage runs alongside homes and flies gather around the waste that has become part of everyday life . . . residents are still waiting for the basic services they say should have been provided long ago. Photos: Themba Maphanga
SERVICE DELIVERY

Three years on, Kanana is still living with the stench of neglect

Three years after deadly protests rocked Tembisa, residents of Kanana Extension 5 continue to live alongside running sewage and heaps of uncollected waste, questioning political…

  • Lesego Chepape
9 min read
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

The forgotten ANC poet-activist who warned the party about power

Long before the ANC took power in South Africa, activist-poet and lawyer Munzhedzi 'Zorro' Ramovha foresaw the dangers of liberation leaders succumbing to corruption, arrogance,…

  • William Gumede
8 min read
The ANC–SACP partnership was forged under conditions of intense struggle. Its future should not be jeopardised in a democratic era where the need for cohesive leadership remains as urgent as ever.
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS

ANC-SACP rift widens

As tensions rise between the SACP and the ANC ahead of local government elections, SACP general secretary Solly Mapaila has strongly criticised the governing party's neoliberal…

  • Brian Sokutu
6 min read