Nearly a year after the residents of Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria were promised clean drinking water in their taps, thousands of residents are still relying on tankers for water supply.
With no Integrated Public Transport System (IPTS) buses running for almost six months, the DA in Nelson Mandela Bay has raised the alarm that mismanagement by the municipality could lead to the city losing more than R200m in grant funding and also permanently derail the subsidised transport system.
Some civil society organisations have formed a crisis committee to help resolve governance problems in Johannesburg and is calling for President Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene to save the city from coalition chaos.
In 2021, the industry paid only R5m in annual corporate income tax (CIT). This is a small amount compared to the industry’s estimated annual revenue of R90bn.