AVBOB celebrates a milestone by rewarding its members on a large scale JOHANNESBURG - Five people died in a head-on collision between a car and a police vehicle on Sunday night The crash took place on Mondlo Road near Vryheid in northern KwaZulu-Natal The scene was cleared just after 2am on Monday morning The details surrounding the accident are not clear at this stage About 400 Mondlo residents marched to their local municipal office to hand over a memorandum of complaints over poor services Undeterred by the pouring rain on Wednesday hundreds of people from Mondlo marched to the Abaqulusi Municipality offices in north KwaZulu-Natal the municipality has been “blackmailing” residents by cutting off people’s electricity to force them to pay historical debt and arrears for other municipal services Resident Silungile Makhoba told GroundUp: “We don’t have job opportunities and most families are headed by unemployed youth Their electricity has been cut because some owe R40,000 and R70,000.” In a memorandum giving the municipality seven days to respond residents complained that there are no streetlights sewage is spilling into the Jojosini river sanitation systems built 60 years ago have collapsed and municipal waste management is unreliable Among their demands was to be supplied directly by Eskom They also want to exit the jurisdiction of the municipality The memorandum is headlined: “Emondlo community demand back our own municipal status” Chairperson of Mondlo Township Civic Organisation Vusi Banda said “In 1963 the Mondlo Township was an independent municipality but the democratic politics swallowed our township The municipality failed to maintain streets He told GroundUp that the municipality has been working hard to fix many things in the township © 2025 GroundUp. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License so long as you credit the authors and GroundUp Please include a link back to the original article We put an invisible pixel in the article so that we can count traffic to republishers All analytics tools are solely on our servers We do not give our logs to any third party We do not use any IP address identifying information except to count regional traffic Source link About 20,000 social grant beneficiaries will not receive their payments this week due to a new verification drive by the.. 6 May 2025: Eskom Expo for Young Scientists winners are set to represent South Africa at the prestigious Regeneron.. Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality 8.5% of the global population was living in extreme.. Families living on the rail reserve along Stock Road in Philippi East and those living on the railway line in.. says she has noted that the Democratic Alliance (DA) is taking legal action against.. in the Zululand district municipality in KwaZulu-Natal is frustrated over the closure of foreign-owned spaza shops after allegations surfaced that they were selling poisoned food Ward 16 councillor Felokwakhe Khumalo said the closure of foreign-owned spaza shops was due to complaints from residents of Block A and B who found dead rats and cockroaches in the food “Police were going around the spaza shops checking them If they found expired food or the spaza shop was not clean Khumalo explained that the owners of the four closed spaza shops have been given three months to resolve the issues before they can reopen The shutdown in the area has left the community without any spaza shops and residents now say they struggle to buy necessities.  The focus on foreign-owned spaza shops intensified after three children from the Eastern Cape died last month after eating poisoned instant porridge bought from a shop owned by a foreign national said they are frustrated because they no longer have nearby shops to buy from “These people [foreign nationals] were very helpful to the community because we used to send children to the store since they were close by Now we must walk long distances to the mall to shop,” she said said the closure of the shops has severely affected their lives “We could take whatever we wanted on credit during the month if we were short of food She acknowledged that some shops sold expired food and called for government intervention Pictured above: A closed-down spaza shop.