{
  "id": 2378149,
  "title": "Municipalities are making residents pay for their failures",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/municipalities-are-making-residents-pay-for-their-failures",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-21T12:25:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Moneyweb",
    "slug": "moneyweb",
    "url": "https://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-podcasts/moneyweb-midday/municipalities-are-making-residents-pay-for-their-failures/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "‘It's tantamount to treason if you steal from the poor or if you are at work, but not at work,’ says Dr Harlan Cloete, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies at the University of the Free State.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "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."
}