With campaigning gaining momentum before the hotly contested May 29 election, two political parties in the Eastern Cape have ruffled the feathers of taxi bosses after reportedly failing to cough up for ferrying members to their rallies. The EFF and uMkhonto weSizwe are entangled in pay disputes which have left operators frustrated.
EDITORIAL | News that Chippa United boss Siviwe 'Chippa' Mpengesi will be returning the Buffalo City and Jan Smuts stadiums to the Buffalo City Metro should be celebrated by the local sporting fraternity.
Eastern Cape football boss Siviwe “Chippa” Mpengesi has thrown in the towel and is in talks with the Buffalo City Metro to hand back control of its football stadiums.
Widespread complaints by BCM sport enthusiasts who were either barred from using East London’s Absa and Jan Smuts Stadiums, or were charged exorbitant fees to do so, should soon be a thing of the past. The metro has finally signed a 20-year lease agreement with Chippa Training Academy just over two years after the council approved the long-term leasing of the two stadiums, which are adjacent to each other, to Chippa United football club boss Siviwe “Chippa” Mpengesi.
Unimpressed EFF leader Julius Malema has lambasted the more than 1,000 party delegates who voted for an all-male provincial top five at the weekend. Malema addressed the delegates on Sunday at East London’s Jan Smuts Stadium, where the party held its third provincial people’s assembly. “There’s no solution in SA without women at the centre of that development,” he said.