Well-known players within Nelson Mandela Bay ANC circles have aligned themselves with the uMkhonto weSizwe Party championed by former president Jacob Zuma.
While ratepayers struggle with load-shedding, potholes, traffic snarl-ups and water outages, the people voted in as suburban representatives for municipal matters say they have become overworked punching bags.
An Eastern Cape municipal councillor and his Grade 12 son were killed by a pair of gunmen who shot them at their family home in front of the councillor's eight-year-old daughter, who survived the horrific attack. Fundisile Ranai, 49, an Ingquza Hill Ward 15 councillor and OR Tambo district municipality water and sanitation portfolio committee member and his 18-year-old son Siyolise were shot dead at the Slovo Park home in Lusikisiki at about 9.