Simmering tensions between Stoney Drift ratepayers and informal settlement dwellers over illegal electrical connections reached boiling point this week, with threats to resort to violence from both sides. On Sunday evening, gunshots were fired to defuse the simmering conflict between the two groups.
Buffalo City ward 9 councillor Mendi Wetsetse has been told by the provincial ANC leadership to step aside. Concerned ANC members in the ward wrote to the party asking it to implement the step-aside rule against Wetsetse, who faces a case of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm, in relation to a complaint levelled against her in 2021.