n the past, SA has had many “hung” municipal councils, since 1994 to be exact – when no single party has had an outright majority, without governments formed thereafter being unstable, yet more recently a number of municipal coalition governments have increasingly collapsed, giving the wrong public perception that coalitions at municipal level are inherently unworkable.
Parliament has given one of its political bosses national assembly speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula 10 working days to respond to a range of alleged governance breaches related to remuneration of the institution’s CEO Xolile George.
The South African Local Government Association in KZN has called for random police raids as a dedicated task team works to crack politically motivated murder cases.