The City of  Johannesburg has received a momentary reprieve from the Gauteng provincial government, which gave the metro’s council until Friday to pass its budget.

The metro, a hung municipality which is governed by a ANC-led coalition, is in a race against time to pass its budget this week, after it failed to do so last week. ..

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