Incapable in Ekurhuleni

Source: published with permission by Lana O’Neill, Editor of Benoni City Times

The Big Issue brings you vital news from Fanie Mthumpha reporting for the Benoni City Times on the area of Ekurhuleni – the East Rand in Gauteng. One of the most vital economic metropoles and vast aerotropolis, Ekurhuleni (meaning ‘place of peace’ in Tsonga) looks like an apocalyptic war-zone due to non-services to the area. Here, political parties, ANC and EFF particularly, are indulging in ongoing political squabbles and in-fighting in an abuse of power. The provision of services hangs in the balance, as the continuing political vacuum in the metro worsens the already crippled delivery of services.

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