The president of the African Content Movement (ACM), Hlaudi Motsoeneng, says his party is poised to take over the Maluti-a-Phofung Municipality in the Free State in this year’s local government ...

Results have been declared for all 53 wards of Palakkad Municipality, showing the BJP emerging as the single largest party. The BJP has won 25 wards, placing it ahead of its rivals in the civic body.

The West Coast District Municipality has officially been named South Africa’s best-run municipality for 2025, while two of its local municipalities, Saldanha Bay and Swartland, tied for first place as ...

Business interest group Sakeliga and the Democratic Alliance (DA) are attempting to get the troubled Ditsobotla Local Municipality (DLM) to be placed under administration by the national government.

The collapse of basic municipal services, like road maintenance and water and electricity provision, due to corruption, political infighting and maladministration, has left the towns of QwaQwa and ...

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A municipality is a political subdivision of a state that provides local government for a specific area and population. Pennsylvania has 2,560 municipalities, which are made up of boroughs, cities, ...

Two villages outside Phuthaditjhaba in Qwaqwa, Free State, are located about three kilometres from the Metsi-Matsho Dam. Yet they have not had tap water for 15 years, according to the residents. A ...

Two villages outside Phuthaditjhaba in QwaQwa, Free State, are located about three kilometres from the Metsimatsho Dam. And yet they have not had tap water for 15 years, according to the residents. A ...

The Free State’s ambition to boost its tourism sector — on which many households depend — is being undermined by local municipalities’ inability to deliver services, recently appointed MEC for finance ...

A case of fraud has been opened against Nketoana local municipality speaker Buyisiwe Makoba, who was paid nearly R64,000 in subsistence and travel claims — despite producing scant evidence of having ...