Royal succession battles in the Eastern Cape negatively affect the stability of traditional leadership in the province and delay development and service delivery, according to premier Oscar Mabuyane.
The Ditsobotla mayor's reasons for resigning have been brought into question after a letter surfaced contradicting the stated reasons she quit hours after being elected.
The closure of the Clover SA cheese factory in North West due to the dysfunctional Ditsobotla local municipality has had a devastating impact on jobless former employees.
The Ditsobotla local municipality in North West has conceded that its failure to maintain public infrastructure resulted in Clover SA closing down its plant and moving it to another province. Clover SA this week announced that it was closing the country's biggest cheese factory and moving it from North West's Lichtenburg to KwaZulu-Natal.