Chris Hani district municipal officials pounced on a noncompliant wholesaler and temporarily closed it after products that expired in 2021 were found on its shelves and in storerooms this week.
When Thulani Yenani asked if he could wash dirty takkies for the owner of a popular kasi foods joint in his neighbourhood of Nomzamo in Komani’s oldest township of Mlungisi during the hard lockdown in 2020, it was purely out of desperation.
The Komani-based civil society organisation Let’s Talk Komani and the Independents party, which have asked the Makhanda High Court to dissolve the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality, say the council has failed to implement its own financial recovery plan.