Attempts to have an Amathole District Municipality ANC councillor and well-known boxing promoter cleared of wrongdoing were thwarted at a council meeting on Monday.
The crippling and exorbitant wage bill, coupled with persistent financial distress which is slowly bringing Amathole district municipality to its knees, has forced the provincial ANC and government to consider scrapping the position of deputy mayor in that council. While the ANC this week unveiled many of its political leaders in provincial municipalities, it announced on Monday that it was placing the deployment of an ADM deputy mayor in abeyance, pending consultations.