Mec Williams News Today

Eastern Cape co-operative governance and traditional affairs MEC Zolile Williams has been caught on a recording lashing out at the poor performance of municipal officials in the province.

No letter of complaint over three ignored court orders and the failure of Buffalo City Metro to budget for the repair of sewage-damaged Nahoon River has reached the office of Cogta MEC Zolile Williams, says his spokesperson Pheello Oliphant.

The Eastern Cape co-operative governance and traditional affairs department has defended the province’s municipalities after questions were raised about the qualifications of municipal managers.

A power play that will uproot political stability in Nelson Mandela Bay and allow the ANC to wrest back control of the city.

A disgruntled UDM councillor in the Mhlontlo municipality has written a scathing letter to Cogta MEC Zolile Williams, accusing the ANC-led council of trying to privatise a municipal BnB at the Tsitsa Falls, one of the area’s biggest tourist attractions near Qumbu. In his letter, seen by the Dispatch, Zakheni Nondaka alleged that the municipality had taken a resolution a few years back to develop Tsitsa Falls in Shawbury village as a major tourist destination and built the BnB as one of the as....

Co-operative governance MEC Zolile Williams has called for urgent police intervention after a spate of attacks on councillors in the province, with the latest incident on Sunday leaving a Port St Johns councillor’s nephew wounded. Williams said his proposed meeting with provincial police commissioner Lt-Gen Nomthetheleli Mene this week would discuss a “responsive security plan to deal with this growing trend of violence against elected public officials at local government level, especi...