PHOTO: Luvuyo Mehlwana
Nqaba Bhanga will relinquish his mayoral chain in seven days’ time and elections for a new mayor will be held in Nelson Mandela Bay.
The Port Elizabeth High Court has ordered speaker of the Nelson Mandela Bay metro to convene a council meeting within seven days to elect the new executive mayor.
Bhanga was elected mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay on 4 December during a chaotic council meeting presided by Patriotic Alliance councillor Marlon Daniels.
After 46 days in office, Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Nqaba Bhanga will relinquish his mayoral chain in seven days’ time, and elections for a new mayor will be held in the metro.
Covid-19 claims ANC stalwart Mike Kwenaite Bay councillor respected as an ethical leader and a gentleman
Nomazima Nkosi Senior council reporter 16 December 2020
HIGHLY REGARDED: Nelson Mandela Bay ANC councillor Mike Kwenaite has died. He was 56 Image: BRIAN WITBOOI
Described as an ethical and moral leader, ANC councillor Mike Kwenaite has become the latest high-profile person to die from Covid-19 complications.
Kwenaite, 56, died on Tuesday at Cuyler Hospital, in Uitenhage, where he had been admitted almost two weeks ago.
After an eight-year absence in council, he was sworn in as a councillor in January as a result of the sudden death of former deputy mayor Bicks Ndoni.
On Friday, 4 December 2020, Nelson Mandela Bay’s council was finally able to elect a new mayor, the DA’s Nqaba Bhanga. Almost immediately the Cooperative Governance MEC in the province, the ANC’s Xolile Nqata, wrote him a letter in which he claimed that the election was illegal. This follows a trend in which various parties in Nelson Mandela Bay appear intent on denying others power when they cannot exercise it themselves. It also follows the actions of the Gauteng Provincial Government in trying to remove the DA from power in Tshwane. Those actions failed, but this kind of turmoil is likely to only grow in the aftermath of next year’s local elections.
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