Gauteng

Global survey reveals South Africans hold distorted views of their country's challenges while municipal failures, parliamentary controversies, and stagnant economic growth compound governance concerns ahead of local elections.

The ANC is demanding removal of a DA billboard depicting Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi in a shower while criticizing water service delivery, as a former ANC parliamentarian receives a seven-year sentence for corruption.

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana faces mounting pressure to stabilize South Africa's ballooning R6 trillion national debt while provincial budgets hang in the balance amid political tensions.

Premier Panyaza Lesufi has allocated over half a billion rand to address Gauteng's persistent water supply failures, while announcing resumed expansion of the Gautrain network to underserved areas.

The Gauteng department of human settlements has delivered housing to residents of Sporong informal settlement following violent displacement linked to illegal mining operations, highlighting escalating security challenges in artisanal mining zones.

While murder rates show modest decline, Parliament's Police Portfolio Committee rejects celebration as Gauteng records highest contact crimes and Cape Town grapples with child gang recruitment crisis.

Provincial health authorities in Gauteng have diagnosed more than 25,000 young adults with high blood pressure, signaling an escalating non-communicable disease burden linked to obesity and sedentary lifestyles.

As violence infiltrates South African classrooms, parents in Gauteng face a stark reality where education and anxiety have become inseparable, revealing deeper fractures in a system struggling to protect its most vulnerable.

A suspended police commissioner's testimony, coalition government instability, and mounting social crises reveal the deepening fractures in South Africa's institutional fabric, as the country grapples with accountability failures across multiple fronts.