Alco Ngobese of the IFP, the longest-serving councillor in the Ekurhuleni metro, has seen it all since he started out in Germiston in 1995.

When Ekurhuleni was created five years later by combining the East Rand local authorities, he served under the metro’s inaugural mayor, the late Bavumile Vilakazi, who served for one year before being sent to Uganda as high commissioner. ..

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