Buffalo City Metro is working overtime to find creative ways of complying with its own credit control bylaw passed recently by the council. This comes after the city was boxed into a corner over its illegal enforcement of its credit controls. Whenever a customer in arrears buys electricity, BCM takes 80% to service their total debt.
Buffalo City Metro mayoral committee member for finance Noma-Afrika Maxongo and her boss, mayor Princess Faku, have buried the hatchet in a clash which allegedly became physical.
The ANC in the Eastern Cape has moved in to quell simmering tensions between Buffalo City mayor Princess Faku and the party’s regional secretary, Antonio Carels.
Eastern Cape premier Oscar Mabuyane has warned Buffalo City Metro mayor Princess Faku and her member of the mayoral committee for finance, Noma-Afrika Maxongo not to “drag the ANC’s name through the mud” after a spat between the two allegedly turned physical.
Buffalo City Metro mayoral committee member for finance Noma-Africa Maxongo intends filing a complaint against mayor Princess Faku with the regional and provincial leadership of the ANC.