The ANC's firing of the councillors came back to bite them after the IEC challenged the procedurally flawed manner in which the party sought to fill the vacancies.
At the eleventh hour on Tuesday, the ANC’s 51 councillors in the Mangaung council wrote to Speaker Maryke Davies, of the DA - just a day before a special sitting met to elect a new mayor - and informed her that they would not be attending.
Patients and healthcare staff were terrified after a snake slithered out of the ceiling in the Botshabelo Hospital Tuesday morning, especially with the current shortage of antivenom to treat snake .
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