'If you're contemplating to discipline anyone who must be held accountable for wrongdoing, if that person is in quarantine because he is ill, don't act against that person.'
Image:People accused of wrongdoing should not be held accountable while in quarantine as their immune system might not be able to handle the stress, resulting in them dying.
“You take action against anyone who is quarantined, that person is stressed, his immune system cannot fight the virusthat person dies. Then I come here and cry crocodile tears. Part of the renewal is to rethink how we treat each other in the name of comrade Mtsi,” Nqatha said. “He stood up for the principles of the ANC to change people’s lives; for peace and stability within the organisation.
Mtsi was redeployed to BCM as mayor in 2016 from the legislature with his then deputy Xola Pakati, who is now mayor, as a way of creating stability in the metro.She said it was his serving nature that had made him a Covid-19 victim.
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