Party removes deployees from other jurisdictions

The troubled Nketoana Local Municipality in Free State has been plunged into deeper uncertainty after both its mayor, Mamiki Mokoena, and speaker, Busisiwe Makhoba, resigned.

- By Boitumelo Kgobotlo

Their sudden exit comes at a time when the ANC is moving to reshuffle leadership in struggling Free State municipalities.

At the parliamentary portfolio committee on cooperative governance and traditional affairs in July, Nketoana leadership admitted to years of instability, financial mismanagement, and R535-million in irregular expendinture among other things.

The ANC provincial executive committee (PEC) met with national party leadership on Friday to discuss the redeployment of mayors in Moqhaka, Masilonyana, Nketoana, Mafube, Letsemeng and Lejweleputswa.