The first meeting of the new Nelson Mandela Bay Metro Council had to be postponed briefly on Thursday as ANC members demanded to be let into the Feather Market Hall. The members earlier accused security guards of not allowing them through the doors. Municipal manager Johann Mettler then called for[…]
The EFF’s refusal to enter into coalitions with the ANC or DA will give it extraordinary power in local government, but could slow down decision-making, political analysts say. “It will get the two bigger parties to do the dirty work for it, effectively getting to do what governments do without[…]
While most of us were focussing on the local government elections, Parliament recently issued a tender for the conducting of a feasibility study on the move of Parliament to Pretoria. This of course originates from President Jacob Zuma’s state of the nation address earlier this year, when he suggested that[…]
Municipalities have until August 24 to hold their first council meeting after the August 3 elections, the ministry of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs said on Tuesday. The clock started ticking on August 10 when the results of the local government elections were gazetted, said Cogta Minister David Van Rooyen. The[…]
In an unexpected development, rival councillors from the DA and the ANC have jumped into bed in the Kannaland municipality, seemingly without the knowledge of their political leadership, opting to vote out controversial Icosa leader, Jeffrey Donson and keep his party out of power. The odde alliance comes despite the[…]
A man and a woman appeared in court on Tuesday, in different cases, accused of fraud against the Road Accident Fund (RAF). Both appeared in the Specialised Commercial Crime Court in Bellville, Cape Town, before magistrate Sabrina Sonnenberg. The man, Mninindawo Mdledle, 57, of Khayelitsha, is alleged to have submitted[…]
The Team South Africa camp at the athletes village in Rio de Janeiro on Monday was the place to be. Journalists from all around the world desperately sought a moment with new 400m world record holder Wayde van Niekerk … but there was another star attraction. It came in the[…]
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has not yet decided which political party it would partner with to form a coalition government in various hung municipalities, but the removal of President Jacob Zuma is a non-negotiable condition if the ruling party wishes to partner with it, EFF said on Monday. The[…]
Mbulelo Noki slowly moved his fingers over the chilling newspaper image of bullet-riddled bodies of workers killed near Lonmin’s Marikana mine, but his eyes remained fixed on the man lying face-down. One of those bodies has become known as “the man in the green blanket”. Moving his eyes to a[…]
A State advocate attached to the Western Cape Directorate for Public Prosecutions has taken over the case of an attorney accused of stealing millions of rand that were intended for Road Accident Fund claimants and deceased estates. Eslin Frank Meyer, 59, who had practices in Mitchell’s Plain and Gordon’s Bay,[…]
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