ANC MP Dingaan Myolwa has tendered his resignation and accused the party of using its majority in parliament to protect leaders who are allegedly involved in shenanigans, while the “selective implementation of the step-aside rule left big fishes unscathed”. The former OR Tambo district municipality mayor and former Eastern Cape MPL has joined former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe Party.
Several senior Eastern Cape ANC MPLs will not return to the legislature after being left off the party’s provincial candidate list for the 2024 general election. The IEC released the final candidate lists for parliament and the nine provincial legislatures on Wednesday. Seasoned politicians who did not make the cut include former health MEC Sindiswa Gomba, standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) provincial chair Mxolisi Dimaza, transport portfolio committee chair Xolani Malamlela and .
Co-operative governance and traditional affairs MEC Zolile Williams has blamed service delivery failures in many rural communities in the Eastern Cape on what he termed a dual system of governance. Addressing the first day of a two-day summit for traditional leaders at Dan’s Country Lodge outside Mthatha on Wednesday, Williams said many projects had stalled across the province because of what he termed the inability of municipalities to work closely with traditional leaders, who are the trib.
The OR Tambo district municipality has appointed new contractors to complete stalled water projects in the area to speed up the provision of clean, potable water to residents, particularly in rural villages.
Tasked with driving development in the province’s struggling municipalities, not one of the Eastern Cape’s municipal development agencies has had a clean bill of health from the auditor-general.