South Africa’s largest city with only 16 days worth of cash rolls out electric buses
The cash-stripped City of Johannesburg has launched a month-long pilot for new electric buses that will be driving along Metrobus and Rea Vaya routes.
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The cash-stripped City of Johannesburg has launched a month-long pilot for new electric buses that will be driving along Metrobus and Rea Vaya routes.
Time is running out to benefit from waivers on rooftop solar power registration fees for Eskom Direct and Cape Town customers.
The City of Johannesburg approved the referral of 13 alleged acts of financial misconduct, valued at around R4.07 billion.
The City of Johannesburg’s mayor has said the metro will use its equitable share funding allocation from National Treasury to pay off its Eskom debt once it receives the money.
Warnings issued and ignored, leading to action ‘unprecedented in the existence of the local government system in the country’ – with 70 municipalities given 120 days to earn the release of their equitable share grants. Professor Samuel Koma from the University of Limpopo fills us in.
Vumacam’s collaboration with the City of Johannesburg and Gauteng Provincial Grovernment has resulted in a string of arrests.
A new agreement has been brokered to embed Eskom engineers within City Power to reduce technical losses, improve billing accuracy, and ring-fence electricity, according to Electricity Minister Kgosientsho Ramokgopa.
The power utility says CoJ and/or City Power currently owes an arrear debt of over R5.25bn, excluding the current account of a further R1.58bn due on 5 June 2026.
Antoinette Slabbert, joernalis by Moneyweb, deel die agtergrond van die saak en bespreek die hofbeslissing.
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Mmamoloko Kubayi has declined a request by senior ANC members, including a parliamentarian, that she contest the Johannesburg mayoral race. The ANC in the region is struggling to find a suitable candidate to take on Democratic Alliance federal council chair Helen Zille and ActionSA president Herman Mashaba in the…