MEC tells municipality of Nquthu to elect officials or she will take over
KWAZULU-Natal co-operative governance and traditional affairs MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube says if the impasse in the composition of the hung Nquthu Local Municipality persists this week, her department will take over its administration and prevent its total collapse.The trouble-plagued Nquthu municipality has failed countless times to elect municipal officials after the August 3 local government elections. The municipality is one of the nine hung municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal where the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) found themselves almost evenly balanced and had to rely on other parties to govern. In Nquthu, the IFP won 15 seats, the ANC 14, the National Freedom Party (NFP) two, and the EFF and DA one each. The IFP, DA and EFF agreed to vote together and the ANC and the NFP — which was allowed to partake only in the Nquthu election — also agreed to form a coalition.The latest impasse follows a legal wrangle involving "suspended" EFF councillor Sne Ntshangase, who took his part...
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