King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality mayor Nyaniso Nelani’s big dreams of turning his municipality into a metro in two years’ time have come crashing down.This after a proposal to incorporate another town and several municipal wards from two other local municipalities into KSD to form a category A municipality failed to convince the Municipal Demarcation Board.
In what will be a welcome relief for many residents in the eastern parts of the province, OR Tambo district municipality bosses will soon be able to generate electricity to ease load-shedding and water-shortage challenges, especially in Mthatha.In 2003, the Mthatha-based district authority was appointed by the national government to provide clean water to residents of the KSD, Mhlontlo, Port St Johns, Ingquza Hill and Nyandeni local municipalities.
The death toll for this year’s summer initiation season has risen to 31, eight more than the 23 recorded during the entire season last year and there are still three weeks to go.
“Get cracking, please. We are starving.” That is essentially the plea from desperate indigenous cannabis growers in the vast Mpondoland area of the former Transkei region to the SA government to fast-track legislation and policies to regulate the cannabis industry. It has previously been speculated that a thriving cannabis industry in the area could create about 300,000 jobs.
Eastern Cape co-operative governance and traditional affairs MEC Zolile Williams has called on the Mhlontlo municipal council to take disciplinary action against a high-ranking councillor who allegedly stormed an interview process for two posts in the municipality.