A recent Auditor-General (AG) report noted that the municipality home to the second-largest city in the Free State is ...

The upgrades include the modernised Thabong Wastewater Treatment Works and multiple pump stations across Welkom and Odendaalsrus. The initiative signals a co-ordinated effort to tackle persistent ...

Free State’s Matjhabeng Local Municipality in the Free State has suffered a legal setback after its appeal was dismissed. The appeal stemmed from a case filed by the Democratic Alliance (DA) against ...

With debt of just over R3.5-billion owed to Eskom and the Sedibeng Water Board for basic services, Matjhabeng municipality in the Free State is, on paper, one of the worst-run municipalities in South ...

Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure Dean Macpherson has halted all Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) fund transfers to the Matjhabeng Local Municipality. This comes after a City Press ...

Public works and infrastructure minister Dean Macpherson has determined that Matjhabeng Local Municipality properly used Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) funds for 2023/24 and 2024/25 on ...

THE cash-strapped Matjhabeng Local Municipality is paying the legal costs of two Free State MECs, who are on trial for alleged abuse of public funds. This was revealed in a response to a written ...

Public Works minister Dean Macpherson has suspended all Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) fund transfers to the Matjhabeng Local Municipality. This follows reports that the municipality’s EPWP ...

Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina has reaffirmed government’s commitment to restoring reliable sanitation services in Matjhabeng Local Municipality following the handover of 22 refurbished ...

Workers staged a sit-in at the Matjhabeng municipal headquarters in Welkom to demand that they be paid immediately Matjhabeng Local Municipality workers sat in at the municipal headquarters in Welkom ...

Following heavy rainfall, the municipality managed Toronto Dam in Welkom, Free State, overflowed on 30 December 2021, inundating nearby evaporation pans on Sibanye-Stillwater’s Beatrix Mine lease area ...