SA Politics Part 14 - The New Dawn turns to Dusk

R13... said:
Yeah, the right to vote is probably too inalienable for the concourt to let people be disenfrachised by a technical point. Suppose the point could be made that people's right to vote wasn't impacted as the election would still go on and they can vote for one of the other parties. I didn't follow the arguments made in court but hopefully the reasons are illuminating enough.
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So all the other parties that went to the concourt for the exact same reason and lost (this same issue has been brought numerous times) - no problem for all the poor disenfranchised voters who couldn’t cast a ballot for some rinky dink party?
 
TheChamp said:
After the 4 who were killed in Ekurhuleni, the Liberation Movement is really under attack.
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I was about to say that is the reality in many rural places where the councillor position is probably the highest paid job in the one-horse town, but then I noticed it was Durban. Obviously everyone knows about the IFP/ANC battles in the 90s, but I suspect this might be associated with MK.
 
Nom Chompsky said:
I was about to say that is the reality in many rural places where the councillor position is probably the highest paid job in the one-horse town, but then I noticed it was Durban. Obviously everyone knows about the IFP/ANC battles in the 90s, but I suspect this might be associated with MK.
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The alleged killer in Ekurhuleni is said to be a member of Floyd's Mayibuye, so it looks like political intolerance is not just confined to the traditional rivals.
 
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Joburg mayor defends his record, but the numbers don’t lie

Dada Morero may or may not be the ANC mayoral candidate in the upcoming local elections, but the polls show his party is being rejected by voters for the very visible deterioration in the city under his tenure.
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In April, Joburg Water reported dealing with 4 336 pipe bursts a month, an increase of 46% over the monthly average for the prior period.
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Joburg has 12 500km of water pipes, but just 60-70km are being replaced annually.

At this rate, replacing the entire network will take close to 200 years.
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There were 2.1 million electricity interruptions reported between July 2025 and March 2026, with an average restoration time of 11 hours. Some 60% of these outages were due to deteriorating and outdated networks
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German development bank KfW recently agreed a R3.8 billion three-year loan to fund City Power’s electricity infrastructure programme. That’s a start, but nowhere near enough to fix a problem of neglect decades in the making.
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There is very little maintenance going on due to the municipality using 40% of its revenue to over-pay useless & incompetent cadres:

Ballooning workforce

An analysis by the CDE puts Joburg’s municipal workforce at 34 453 employees.

Employee-related costs reached R20.7 billion in the 2025 financial year, up from R8.6 billion a decade earlier, and now absorb about 40% of cash collected from customers.
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