Author: Kgaogelo Magolego

Hardly three months after the Gauteng provincial government appointed City Power to electrify the province’s two hundred or so informal settlements, the first project has been completed and switched and commissioned on Wednesday. Premier Panyaza Lesufi and Joburg Mayor handed over a multimillion-rand solar power microgrid to the community of eMarasteni in Alexandra which never had electricity. The facility built at a cost of R60 Million produces up to megawatt of electricity and has electrified some 200 households in the informal settlement of predominantly people of Rastafarian religion. “This is part of an energy crisis response plan by the province…

City of Ekurhuleni Mayor Sivuyile Ngondwana has survived a second attempt to oust him from the helm of the metro. Action SA, the ANC and the DA came together to topple the African Independent Congress councillor but the EFF fought vehemently in his protection resulting in an adjournment of the meeting by Council Speaker Nthabiseng Tshibenga, ten hours into the proceedings. Tshivhenga cited a need to source legal opinion for her decision after the ANC and the DA tabled amendments to the original Action SA motion of no confidence against the mayor which the EFF argued “substantially changed” to the…

Residents of informal settlements and hostels in the East Rand have given the City of Ekurhuleni a week to come up with a plan to address service delivery challenges in their areas. The disgruntled residents came in their numbers to demonstrate outside the municipality as councillors were engaged in a power struggle inside the council chambers, the EFF led the defence of mayor Sivuyile Ngodwana who faced a motion of no confidence tabled by Action SA.  “Its been thirty years of hell for the communities in areas such as Katlehong, Kagiso and Voslorus as they have been sold dummies one…

The DA has come under heavy criticism for writing to several Western powers including the US government asking for intervention ahead of the May 29 elections citing possible unrest it said may be caused by the involvement of uMkhonto weSizwe party. Without providing any evidence, the official opposition which pundits predict will shed more votes having already recorded a decline in electoral support in the past elections ( 2019 general elections and 2021 local government elections), wrote to various governments alleging that the Jacob Zuma led MK party’s participation in the elections posed a threat to democracy and asked that…

Gauteng provincial government is soon expected to announce more job opportunities including fourty thousand internships to be spread across departments. Premier Panyaza Lesufi told an ANC Youth League rally in Alexandra on Sunday that the ANC government will end unemployment in the shortest possible time through various programmes including the reskilling of the province’s unemployed youth. Lesufi was speaking in his capacity as the ruling party’s provincial chairperson and said the mass jobs programme will cover even thousands of youth he said were unemployable as they’re uneducated and unskilled. “ The Gauteng government will take you to FET and while…

AL JAMA-AH has called for radical transformation of the economy including expedited land reform as well as an overhaul of what it describes as a white judicial system. The party launched its manifesto for the 2024 National and Provincial Elections in the predominantly Muslim area of Lenasia, south of Johannesburg where it also called for unity of black parties. Delivering its offering for the electorate party leader Ganief Hendricks said the May 29 poll was a “black against white” affair lamenting what he calls thirty wasted years under ANC rule. While calling out the ANC for failures in government, Hendricks…

Mmusi Maimane’s Build One South Africa party has set ambitious targets after meeting the requirements to be on the ballot paper. Maimane led a delegation of the party to the IEC offices in Centurion where they submitted piles of documents containing signatures of registered voters endorsing the party to contest the May 29 general elections. Maimane said the party was targeting a million votes which he believes would make the party kingmaker in the event there’s no outright winner. “We know we are doing. We’re going to criss-cross the country to talk to communities to ensure that we get the…

The EFF has slammed the deal between the City of Tshwane and right wing pressure group Afriforum and called for its immediate termination. The agreement, announced this week by Mayor Celliers Brink will see the interest group cutting grass, filling potholes and carrying out general maintenance among others. The EFF, an opposition in the council has called for the immediate termination of the deal accusing the metro’s DA-led coalition government of using municipal resources to appease disgruntled voters who dumped the blue party for Freedom Front +. “ By entering into service delivery agreements with Afriforum, the Democratic Alliance explicitly…

The ANC is yet to come up with a way to decide the fate of its members who are aspiring candidates for the upcoming national and provincial elections who have had serious allegations levelled against them. The party is holding a special National Executive Committee meeting in Boksburg, Ekurhuleni that includes its leagues and alliance partners to finalise its candidate before the IEC’s Friday deadline for submission. The list conference comes amid media reports based on leaks about which senior leaders could possibly be excluded as a result of varying allegations of wrongdoing and the party is expected to decide…

The relatively unknown Ivory Park Community Centre was showered with gifts on Sunday as it hosted the 43rd birthday celebration of EFF Leader Julius Malema. The facility provides meals to more than a hundred children in the impoverished area situated near Midrand North of Johannesburg. After the coordinator of the center Dineo Mayelane who took over its running following the passing of her mother Julia Mayalane who founded it, said her team was already assisting the children with school work although the facility is hardly equipped for that and wished to be able to do more in order to unearth…