Three days and three nights of skulduggery keep the Son of Man out of Durban’s mayoral parlour
Flawed process may still end up in court
Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipalities go to the Democratic Alliance, with eThekwini set to follow.
Nearly 20 former and current staff and executives are understood to be facing action over procurement corruption at the water entity
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South Africa’s 66 hung municipalities have to constitute councils or face a rerun of elections
Those haggling over the keys to Durban city hall can’t smell the shit in the harbour
Deals with the Inkatha Freedom Party deliver small towns, but metros remain beyond the ruling party’s reach
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa is understood to have been part of talks that swung the agreement, which is a ‘governance plan’ rather than a coalition
Land entity gets an unqualified audit but parliament remains unimpressed
The regime’s last president may have ushered in democracy but he refused to take responsibility for the deeds of his National Party government
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