Amathole District Municipality mayor Anele Ntsangani was smoothly re-elected to his position as the number one citizen during a special council meeting on Tuesday.
The official Nahoon residence of Anele Ntsangani, mayor of the troubled Amathole district municipality, has been burgled, but the only items to have been stolen appear to be old council documents.
ANC Secretary-General Paul Mashatile has asked Eastern Cape Secretary Lulama Ngcukayitobi to explain why the Provincial Executive Committee dissolved the Amathole Region despite an instruction from the National Executive Committee not to do so.
New ADM mayor Anele Ntsangani wants the district's acting municipal manager Lucky Mosala sent back to his job as chief financial officer and replaced by an official from the provincial government.