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AWKWARD: Four traffic officers wait outside the Makana Council Chamber on May 30. They were called to remove three councillors, Lungile Mxube, Kungeka Mashiane and Philip Machanick, after they refused speaker Mthuthuzeli Matyumza’s instruction to leave their council seats and move to the public gallery. The three are among the five reinstated by a court order. They left of their own accord following a vote on the municipal budget. Picture: SUE MACLENNAN
JUDGMENT

Drama in Makana council as traffic cops called to oust trio

Three councillors instructed to leave a Makana special council meeting on Thursday May 30 have accused the speaker of treating the council “like his private property”. This was after Makana Council speaker Mthuthuzeli ‘Mabhuti’ Matyumza…

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JUDGMENT

Ndlambe Municipality update on water in Port Alfred: 8 November 2022

In our 3 November edition, Talk of the Town reported on the contractual dispute between Ndlambe Municipality and the operator of the municipality’s 2ML reverse osmosis (RO) plant (‘New setback for water-strapped PA’, 3/11/2022, p3). Here,…

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IRRATIONALITY OF THE RULES

Lockdown judgment should have been more concise and persuasive: legal experts

The Pretoria high court judgment which has declared lockdown level 3 and 4 regulations invalid and unconstitutional, lacks specific detail on the irrationality of the rules, legal experts say. On Tuesday, judge Norman Davis declared that…

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