With the 2024/25 municipal budgeting process in progress, residents and ratepayers should drive a collaborative action to unpack proposed increases in electricity tariffs, water tariffs, municipal rates, and service fees. Public participation platforms and ward committees are among these but should not be limited…
During a Business Café conversation held on 24 November 2023 with community leaders representing faith-based, environmental, ratepayers’ and heritage associations from across George, it was agreed that the city’s biggest strength lies in its ‘social capital’. “There is a parallel between “Social Capital” (communities’…
“… I always believed that, in South Africa, if we use all our skills and backgrounds we will be unstoppable.” Rassie Erasmus. Applying this principle and by amongst others putting our differences, titles, public esteem, and power games aside, then together we will succeed….
A landmark survey on the economic sustainability of coastal metropoles in South Africa has revealed that most inner-city districts have manifested rapid decline in the past 20 years. In his doctoral thesis on inner-city turnaround and economic and tourism development, Dr Hendrik Conradie of…
