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Louis Thabethe, the mayor of Lekwa Local Municipality in Standerton, said he had already started repairing the leaking sewerage plants polluting the Vaal River before the court fined the council an astronomical R70 million.
A senior ANC member in Mpumalanga is the architect of the party’s downfall in the Mkhondo Local Municipality in Piet Retief, where it lost the powerful seats of mayor, Speaker and chief whip for the first time since the dawn of democracy.
Mpumalanga’s Lekwa Local Municipality in Standerton, which had been torn apart by ANC infighting, has been taken over by another party for the first time since democracy.
A group of independent candidates and community structures in Standerton, Mpumalanga, have banded together to form a new civic organisation to "rescue" the area via the upcoming municipal elections.