The Mnquma municipal council has resolved to open its own probe against councillors and staff members for possible leaks over a petition that alleged misappropriation of funds, corruption and nepotism.
Even before his official start as a CFO for the Amathole District Municipality, Lubabalo Manjingolo’s appointment is being contested. A losing candidate in the selection process and an NGO are questioning the appointment.
Eastern Cape co-operative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) MEC Zolile Williams has called on struggling municipalities to sell their debt to private collectors to recoup some of the money owed by consumers.
For over 30 years, Zolisile Marwanqana, better known as Sweet Mama, has been constantly nourishing young talent in the performing arts, sports and life skills going so far as to use his social grants to fund his programmes.Since 1989, the 63-year-old multitalented patriot of Nqadu village near Willowvale has been developing young talent.
Financial hardship and a daily struggle to put food on the table may have been why an Eastern Cape mother took her life and those of her three young children. The deaths of 38-year-old Bongeka Buso and her children, Oratile, Orabile and Anathi aged five, eight and 14 have left the residents of Tholeni village, in Butterworth, in a state of shock.