Scores of opposition party supporters have marched to the offices of the troubled Nquthu Local Municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal, to demand that the newly-appointed administrator call a council meeting to elect municipal office bearers. Nquthu local municipality and uMzinyathi district municipality are two of the nine KwaZulu-Natal municipalities that had hung councils after the August 3 local government elections. But they the only ones still in limbo after failing to elect office bearers despite convening more than six council meetings. uMzinyathi district municipality cannot constitute its council until the Nquthu local municipality has done so. Last month, KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta), Nomusa Dube-Ncube, invoked Section 139 (1) b of the Constitution and appointed two administrators to run the municipalities’ day-to-day activities until the impasse is resolved. This was condemned by opposition parties, who accuse Dube-Ncube of...
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