The beleaguered local government sector, dogged by one financial pressure crisis after another, has registered a slight increase in the number of consumer units receiving basic service delivery from their municipalities, statistician-general Risenga Maluleke said.

He was delivering the nonfinancial census of municipalities for 2022 in Pretoria on Tuesday...

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