ON THURSDAY, the ANC in Tshwane claimed that the city’s DA executive mayor‚ Solly Msimanga‚ was corrupt and a brazen liar‚ accusations he wasted little time in rubbishing as an attempt to discredit his clampdown on corruption.Speaking at a press briefing‚ the chairperson of the ANC in Tshwane and former mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa read a statement in which the party details cases of alleged wrongdoing by Msimanga.Msimanga became mayor following the recent local government elections. His party‚ the DA‚ entered into coalition with opposition parties to unseat the ANC.According to the ANC, not only had Msimanga lied to the public‚ but he had also irregularly appointed DA members to positions in the metro."One of the first public pronouncements issued by the executive mayor Msimanga upon his election was the banning of blue lights [motorcades]‚" said Ramokgopa."This exposed a glaring shortcoming of the mayor on the operations‚ powers and functions of the municipal council‚ since neither ...
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