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Buffalo City Metro communities are beginning to feel the pain of the city’s spending cuts after it pulled the plug on its multimillion-rand ward-based projects. According to the ward allocation programmes report, seen by the Dispatch, 14 wards had not touched their millions by the time the freeze was implemented towards the end of 2023, while others managed to spend between R6,000 and R900,000 per ward. ....
More than a year since the 2021 local government elections, some Buffalo City Metro ward councillors are still forced to operate from the boot of their cars because they have yet to be assigned offices. The DA’s leader in the BCM council, Sue Bentley, said the space issue had been a problem since the municipality became a metro. ....