South Africa’s most important city crumbling while officials continue to steal and plunder

• South Africa's most important city, Johannesburg, is indeed crumbling due to financial mismanagement and corruption among municipal officials.
• The city's financial collapse is attributed to gross incompetence, looting by criminal syndicates, and wasteful expenditure, leading to a R24.5 billion mountain of unresolved wasteful expenditure.
• The National Treasury has stepped in to force improved management, and Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has threatened to cut state funding again if the city fails to crack down on financial misconduct and irregular spending.