Officials on Tuesday again failed to elect political leadership for the embattled Nquthu municipality in northern KwaZulu-Natal‚ leaving it the only council in the country without a mayor. ANC and IFP supporters tried to force their way inside the Pietermaritzburg City Hall, where a chaotic meeting was being held to try elect Nquthu Municipality office bearers. This was the sixth attempt to constitute the council‚ but was again abandoned when councillors from both parties started bickering over the proceedings. The meeting was held in Pietermaritzburg‚ about 200km from Nquthu‚ because of safety fears. Nquthu now faces the prospect of being dissolved and reconstituted‚ a government official said. With two rival coalition’s deadlocked — and continuing legal battles over the status of EFF and National Freedom Party (NFP) councillors — various attempts have been made to convene a sitting to elect a mayor‚ deputy mayor and speaker. Each time the attempts have failed. Because of this‚ the...
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