THE SMART NEWS SOURCE | Feb 10 2012 12:35 | LAST UPDATED Feb 10 2012 12:35 |
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ANC shuffle looming in GautengAs top leaders jostle for support in the run-up to next month's regional conferences, four ANC regions in Gauteng are heading for a shake-up. What is Ekurhuleni council hiding?The Ekurhuleni municipality has invoked a 1939 ordinance to keep a discussion on suspicious land transactions worth millions out of the public eye. Mayor Mekgwe's hot potatoA report on alleged land-swap irregularities is set to turn up the heat, write Adriaan Basson and Yolandi Groenewald Court grants McBride access to statementsEkurhuleni metropolitan police chief Robert McBride on Thursday won his bid to gain access to statements relating to his drunken-driving trial. Ekurhuleni speaker succeeds Nkosi as mayorThe speaker of the Ekurhuleni metro council, Lentheng Helen Mekgwe, was appointed as the new mayor in Germiston on Tuesday. McBride's xeno reportLawlessness, murderous mobs and politics were behind violence, says Robert McBride. Ekurhuleni mayor quits after seven yearsEkurhuleni mayor Duma Nkosi has resigned. The African National Congress in Gauteng said it had accepted Nkosi's resignation on Friday. Municipal workers back on the picket lineAbout 8 000 members of the South African Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) are to continue striking in Ekurhuleni on Monday, said the union. A matter of respectThree men lounge on plastic camping chairs at what looks like a picnic site. Three of them are shirtless, their fat bellies sagging over their trousers. Too many questionsAh, the gutter. There's plenty of mud down there -- which is what it being used in the unseemly spat between Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride and some of his officers. |
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