A total of 21 parties and five independents will contest the dysfunctional Limpopo council next week
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.The uMkhonto weSizwe party’s top leadership has spent the past week working the streets of the Thabazimbi local municipality ahead of the by-election on 4 December.
The Limpopo province and the National Council of the Provinces , in consultation with Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MinisterThis followed several years of instability caused by the lack of an outright majority in the council, which has had 12 municipal managers in 13 years and which had parallel political and management structures at the time it was dissolved.
This resulted in parallel councils being elected by the two sides, who appointed parallel councils with two sets of mayors, speakers, municipal managers and chief financial offices.
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