President Cyril Ramaphosa is bringing the ANC’s Letsema campaign, focused on the renewal of the party’s social contract with its supporters, to the Eastern Cape this weekend. ANC provincial secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi said Ramaphosa would take the campaign to the Amathole region, where he would participate in a number of activities, culminating in a rally in Debenek, outside Qonce, on Sunday.
Co-operative governance MEC Zolile Williams has called for urgent police intervention after a spate of attacks on councillors in the province, with the latest incident on Sunday leaving a Port St Johns councillor’s nephew wounded. Williams said his proposed meeting with provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Nomthetheleli Mene this week would discuss a “responsive security plan to deal with this growing trend of violence against elected public officials at local government level, especi.
A young and ambitious Ngqeleni-born businessman who grew up in abject poverty, is now on a quest to assist other young people from impoverished homes in the Mpondoland area where he was raised. He is Bulelani Mancotywa, popularly known as Khiwa (his clan name). The philanthropist and owner of Khiwa’s Media, who is also a popular photographer, is investing more than R250,000 into rural sports development, poverty alleviation and education initiatives.
Just a few months after being elected to the ANC provincial executive committee in May, controversial former ANC Youth League deputy president Andile Lungisa faces the danger of losing his seat in the 35-member PEC after the national ANC suspended him from all party activities until September 2023.
The cat is out of the bag. Word in political corridors is that the Amathole district municipality’s special council meeting on Thursday will unveil former Nkonkobe municipality mayor Anele Ntsangani as ADM’s new executive mayor. There was speculation recently that ANC MPL Nozibele Nyalambisa might take over the reins at the troubled municipality, but Ntsangani has now emerged as the front-runner to replace Nceba Ndikinda.