With unpaid bills owed to the City of Johannesburg rising from about R15-billion in 2014/15 to nearly R72-billion in 2024/25, the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) cautions that the City’s budget is “increasingly disconnected from reality”. In the second issue of the independent think tank’s new report series, ‘Johannesburg Matters: Fixing South Africa’s growth engine’, which highlights the multiple crises confronting the City of Johannesburg and presents recommendations, the CDE warns that the City is falling into a dangerous financial spiral.

Johannesburg has become dangerously disconnected from financial reality, says Centre for Development and Enterprise director Ann Bernstein

With unpaid bills owed to the City of Johannesburg rising from about R15-billion in 2014/15 to nearly R72-billion in 2024/25, the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE)…