Thulani Mbele

6 days ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Jeanette Chabalala |Thulani Mbele

Emfuleni is one of the poorly run municipalities in Gauteng and has been struggling to collect revenue from customers. Only 10 of the 63 municipalities that are part of the Eskom debt-relief programme are complying with its requirements. This was revealed in the auditor-general’s 2023/24 local government audit report, which said 53 (84%) of the municipalities are not complying with the requirements. The AG described the financial health of municipalities as again being in a bad state.

1 week ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Thulani Mbele

A member of a minibus taxi association and a security officer were fatally shot at the Zonkizizwe rank in Katlehong, Ekurhuleni, early on Thursday. Police spokesperson Col Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi said a white Toyota Fortuner with about 10 men inside arrived at the rank and started shooting at security officers. A bakkie belonging to the officers was torched. A second vehicle had multiple gunshot holes.

1 week ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Jeanette Chabalala |Thulani Mbele

Broken trucks used for refuse collection in Emfuleni at the Duncanville Fleet Management depot in Vereeniging. Residents of Emfuleni have in the recent weeks dumped rubbish outside the municipality offices because of uncollected refuse. More than half of Gauteng’s waste removal trucks are either broken or are gathering dust at municipal depots and need to be replaced. The three municipalities with the most unusable trucks are Ekurhuleni, Joburg and Emfuleni.

1 week ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Herman Moloi |Thulani Mbele

As deputy transport minister Mkhuleko Hlengwa faced tough questions in parliament yesterday about investigations into the Road Accident Fund (RAF), two trucks, police and a court sheriff were outside the fund’s head offices in Centurion, ready to remove its furniture. The raid by the sheriff follows default court judgments awarded to lawyers who represent hundreds of RAF claimants and who have been waiting for years for the entity to pay out their settlements.

1 week ago | sowetanlive.co.za | Thulani Mbele

Samuel Mogongwe, Lucky Michael Sikhosana, Sello Uoane and Thato Madisha appeared at the KwaMhlanga magistrate court in the case of journalist Aserie Sibusiso Ndlovu and his partner Zodwa Mdhluli. The two men accused of the murder of journalist Aserie Sibusiso Ndlovu and his partner Zodwa Mdhluli have abandoned their bail application. Remains suspected to be those of the couple were discovered three weeks ago after they were reported missing on February 18.