# [TOP STORY] Municipalities are making residents pay for their failures Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/moneyweb-midday-60224/top-story-municipalities-are-making-residents-pay-for-their-failures Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/moneyweb-midday-60224/top-story-municipalities-are-making-residents-pay-for-their-failures.md Podcast: [Moneyweb@Midday](https://stenobird.com/podcast/moneyweb-midday-60224) Published: 2026-08-21T10:44:00+00:00 Episode link: https://iono.fm/e/1709678 Audio file: https://dl.iono.fm/epi/prov_216/epi_1709678_medium.m4a?p=rss Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/moneyweb-midday-60224/episodes/top-story-municipalities-are-making-residents-pay-for-their-failures Duration seconds: 477 ## Resource β€˜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. Moneyweb ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/moneyweb-midday-60224/episodes/top-story-municipalities-are-making-residents-pay-for-their-failures/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/moneyweb-midday-60224/top-story-municipalities-are-making-residents-pay-for-their-failures.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.