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Tools of the trade: When the city manager took up his position, the electricity department had one bakkie to cover Qwaqwa. He has since equipped the municipality with the needed vehicles.
ELECTRICITY OUTAGES

Prisoners, parolees and ghost workers on municipality payroll

Maluti-a-Phofung city manager Mzwakhe Mofokeng is on the warpath to stamp out rampant and entrenched corruption bringing the town to its knees

  • Lunga Mzangwe
8 min read
Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Director-General Mbulelo Tshangana at the iLGM conference in Durban. (Photo: Cogta)
COOPERATIVE GOVERNANCE

eThekwini not eligible for section 139 administration, says Cogta director-general

Mbulelo Tshangana’s statements come as the KwaZulu-Natal cooperative governance MEC has threatened the metro with ‘escalated intervention’, drawing the ire of its mayor

  • Des Erasmus
9 min read