New ADM mayor Anele Ntsangani wants the district's acting municipal manager Lucky Mosala sent back to his job as chief financial officer and replaced by an official from the provincial government.
More strike action over nonpayment of salary increases since 2019 is looming at Amathole district municipality, this time fuelled by the district authorities' recent approval of a large increase for a senior manager.
A strike by forensic services in the province means dead bodies are not being collected. In some cases bodies are left to lie in the open for hours in full view of passers-by.
Plans by the newly elected Amathole district municipality’s political leadership to implement long-standing salary increases for the district’s workforce have been dampened by the provincial treasury, which advised the municipality that its plans were not affordable. The new ADM troika, after meeting protesting employees last week, agreed to effect the more than 6.