Bitou mayoral election falls flat
Naziziphiwo Buso Digital reporter 05 May 2021
The election of a new mayor for the Bitou municipality fell flat on Tuesday after the nominated candidates tied in the vote.
The council was set to vote for a new mayor after Active United Front (AUF) leader Peter Lobese was booted out in a vote of no confidence two weeks ago, where the DA and the ANC voted together in the motion. ..
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The Department for Transport to create a second HQ in Birmingham and a northern hub in Leeds as part of government commitment to level up all parts of the UK.
Cllr Judith Blake, Chair of the Local Government Association s Children and Young People Board, responded to the Education Secretary’s announcement that placing vulnerable ch
Mayor of County Cork apologises over Bessborough Mother and Baby Home Linehan Foley says ‘sorry to the mothers and babies who suffered and continue to suffer’
Sat, Feb 13, 2021, 11:52 Updated: Sat, Feb 13, 2021, 12:11
The Mayor of Cork County, a survivor of the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Cork, has apologised on behalf of Cork County Council for failing to ensure that women who had their babies there were properly cared for.
CllrMary Linehan Foley, who was born in Bessborough in Cork city in 1966 and later adopted by a family in Youghal, on Friday issued the apology on behalf of Cork County Council as Bessborough was within the county’s jurisdiction for many of its years of operation, from 1922 to 1998.
The pressure felt by women who work as local authority elected members “just weeks after giving birth”, owing to a lack of proper maternity provision in the State, is “simply unacceptable in 2021”.