In a voice note obtained by the Mail & Guardian, a senior EFF leader is heard saying they would give councillors different coloured pens to identify how they voted and that councillors must come to council even if they were sick
A source said the ministers viewed deployment in government as their new life and they are too comfortable with the benefits
A councillor said police had to be brought in to stop the disruptions
The MK Party says it will oppose the Gauteng provincial budget after the ANC snubbed its requests on KwaZulu-Natal, while the EFF also withholds support over the insourcing of security staff
The president will meet the provincial executive to discuss the state of the province’s municipalities
The EFF leader also questioned why Johannesburg residents would vote for Helen Zille, saying she is ‘old’ and ‘does not have teeth’
Khakhau said the race was personal for her and it was a deliberate push back against those who seek to abolish the existence of ancillary structures in the party
The red berets had previously threatened not to support any budgets tabled by the ANC after their speaker was removed in Ekurhuleni
Maluti-a-Phofung city manager Mzwakhe Mofokeng is on the warpath to stamp out rampant and entrenched corruption bringing the town to its knees
The ANC said US ambassador to SA, Leo Brent Bozell III ‘is not yet an ambassador to SA’