Local Goverment

Patrick Mabilo has ultimately been voted in as Sol Plaatje’s executive mayor and will be the key figure of the ANC’s canvassing team in next year’s February 13 by-elections that will unfold in the party’s support base of Galeshewe which also used to be the hotbed of anti-apartheid activism. The inter-related events that unfolded in the beleaguered…

28 AUGUST 2018 On 23 July 2018, the MEC responsible for Local Government, Mr. B.G Vass (appointing authority) established a Section 106 investigation team (the team) in terms of section 106 (1) of the Municipal Systems Act (No.32 of 2000) to investigate various allegations of impropriety leveled against certain officials of the Sol Plaatje…

Media Statement: The Systems Act, 32 of 2000 makes provision for Provincial Monitoring of Municipalities. Section 105 (a) empowers the M.E.C for Local Government in the Province to monitor municipalities in managing their own affairs, exercising their powers and performing their functions. MEC Bentley Vass who is responsible for Cooperative…

Galeshewe Kimberley 16/07/2018 - The situation at Galeshewe Magistrate's Court is not for the faint hearted to witness. One of the accused in a group of 16 appearing on a charge of housebreaking with intent to steal is a 65 year-old female and one as young as 19. Hordes of the female accused were adorning blankets in protecting themselves…

Police reinforcements are being bolstered with detectives from all divisions having been commanded to report for duty in uniform. Despite having drawn in Public Order Policing (POPs) members from major centres such as Kuruman and Upington, the police were at the receiving end of a show of force with angry crowds in Kimberley's worst day of…

Kimberley 02/07/2018- Representatives of the Sol Plaatje Community are threatening a state of shutdown in  Kimberley should the Executive Mayor of Sol Plaatje Municipality Mangaliso Matika fail to dismiss the Municipal Manager  Goolam Akharwaray and Chief Financial Officer Lydia Mahloko. Thousands of Kimberley residents participated in a march…

Northern Cape’s Kathu based Gamagara Municipality says an allegation by the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) Melinda Hattingh’s that its Chief Financial Officer Ndabaithethwa Moses Grond acquired his Maserati Granturismo car through corrupt means is laced with racism. This follows Hattingh who is the DA’s Member of the Provincial Legislature (MPL)…