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Piles of rubbish, power cuts and potholes: anger grows over Johannesburg’s run-down infrastructure

Sunday, November 1, 2026 · 5:00 AM

Piles of rubbish, power cuts and potholes: anger grows over Johannesburg’s run-down infrastructure

The problems run deep in South Africa’s largest city. Will voters punish the ANC in next week’s local elections? One week before the local elections in South Africa, the pavements and roads of the Johannesburg township Alexandra were filled with piles of rubbish, rotting in the heat. At the Jukskei River, its banks choked with rubble and litter, foul-smelling brown water flowed out of a culvert. “We’ve got way too ma

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