{
  "id": 2321327,
  "title": "Residents frustrated with councillors' performances, study reveals",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/residents-frustrated-with-councillors-performances-study-reveals",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-21T06:12:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/thepost/news/2026-08-21-residents-frustrated-with-councillors-performances-study-reveals/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "This comes in the wake of the Afrobarometer’s recent findings, which revealed that only 17% of South Africans felt heard by their councillors, and 27% rated their performance positively.",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}