In October 2024 FF PLUS has opened a case against ghost workers overtime, that costed Polokwane Municipality 200 million Rands.

Situated on the outskirts in several clusters are less formal settlement areas, which are experiencing enormous influx from rural urban migration trends.

These areas are in dire need of upgraded services and infrastructure, both social and engineering, and are struggling to cope with the informal influx of more and more people who want access to an improved quality and standard of living.

In the election of 1 November 2021 the African National Congress (ANC) won a majority of fifty-six seats on the council.

Much of this growth is ascribed to an influx of people from other, more rural, municipal areas into Polokwane, where the perception of more employment and greater economic wealth exists.