To reduce the scourge of initiation deaths, the Amathole District Municipality has embarked on a campaign to provide water tanks to some initiation schools that admit hundreds of initiates.
The cat is out of the bag. Word in political corridors is that the Amathole district municipality’s special council meeting on Thursday will unveil former Nkonkobe municipality mayor Anele Ntsangani as ADM’s new executive mayor. There was speculation recently that ANC MPL Nozibele Nyalambisa might take over the reins at the troubled municipality, but Ntsangani has now emerged as the front-runner to replace Nceba Ndikinda.
Amid financial and administration instability, the ailing Stutterheim-based Amahlathi municipality could soon be without an administration boss. This as mayor Onke Mgunculu forges ahead with plans to suspend municipal manager Ivy Sikhulu-Nqwena. Mgunculu last week gave the municipal manager seven days to give reasons why she should not be placed on precautionary suspension, pending investigations into a number of alleged mismanagement transgressions.