Collapsing municipal infrastructure and sporadic service delivery have left businesses and residents scrambling for alternative service providers. Outstanding debt to suppliers, Eskom and water authorities has ballooned.

Now, increasingly, municipal employees are feeling the pinch as municipal dysfunction deepens. ..

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