Debt write-offs and wage deals raise concerns that public funds are being used to win votes ahead of local elections.
Don’t you just love the smell of ballot papers in the morning?
Even though the local government polls are still some months away, the ANC is still continuing to throw other people’s money at potential voters to save it from the ignominious reversal it suffered in the 2024 national election.
This time it is, effectively, more of the same sort of ratepayer cash it used to pass a sweet R10.3 billion wage increase package for the South African Municipal Workers Union in Johannesburg… which, in turn, got the union’s bosses to urge workers not to vote for the DA, the ANC’s main opponent in the fight…