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The Eastern Cape ANC is calling on all its members facing formal criminal charges to step down.
Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba appeared in court on Friday facing a string of charges including fraud, corruption, money laundering and contravention of the municipal finance management act.
The ANC announced on Tuesday that all the affected comrades are expected to step aside and subject themselves to the Provincial Integrity Commission.
The African National Congress in the Eastern Cape is calling on all its members facing formal criminal charges to step down.
The call comes after Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba, ANC regional chairperson in the Buffalo City metro Phumlani Mkolo, and other ANC members appeared in court on Friday for a string of charges relating to a R10-million allegedly siphoned off in the name of Nelson Mandela s funeral.
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Oscar Mabuyane said provincial government engaged Home Affairs and the SA Post Office to ensure their branches do not become Covid-19 super-spreaders.
Mabuyane urged applicants of the R350 social relief distress grant to stop showing up at the province s 156 Post Office branches uninvited.
Home Affairs confirmed that its East London branch s 16 employees were seeing more than 400 people from across the province daily.
Eastern Cape Premier Oscar Mabuyane said the Eastern Cape government was concerned that long queues at post offices and Home Affairs branches in the province may become Covid-19 super-spreaders.
Speaking during his weekly Covid-19 media briefings in Bhisho on Tuesday, Mabuyane said the provincial government would assist Home Affairs and the Post Office to manage the queues.