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Mangaung employees take to the streets

───   KATLEHO MORAPELA 11:35 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 Image: OFM News/Katleho Morapela Hundreds of Mangaung Metro Municipality employees affiliated with the South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) have taken to the streets of Bloemfontein. The group of disgruntled employees at the financially troubled municipality demands that the Municipal Manager, Tankiso Mea, vacate office. Mea has been embroiled in a number of maladministration and corruption allegations. Oppositions parties in the Council and in the Provincial Legislature have for years called for investigations into his office, with the DA stating that he is amongst those to be blamed for the municipal financial rut. Calls against him gained momentum soon after the Metro got placed under administration in December 2019.

Unions threaten to shut down Mangaung

───   15:07 Fri, 09 Apr 2021 Photo: Katleho Morapela Trade unions within the Mangaung Metro Municipality are unwavering they will shut down the municipality within seven days should it fails to heed their call. The South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) alongside the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) demand that Municipal Manager, Tankiso Mea, vacate his office. Hundreds of employees affiliated to the unions took to the streets of Bloemfontein today to express their frustrations. They demand that Mea be suspended pending investigations into his office and that the Council be dissolved. Samwu’s Lucky Sebego, tells OFM News Mea has rendered the municipality dysfunctional, and is at the helm of its service delivery debacles. He says the municipality is in a state of disarray.

Electricity tariff in draft budget leaves a cold breeze

Mayor Leon van Wyk Update GEORGE NEWS - The drafting of the new budget for the 2021/2022 financial year was no easy task. Add the additional impact of Covid-19, as well as Eskom s tariff increase of 17,8% for the purchase of bulk electricity, and you have a real number cruncher on hand. Mayor Leon van Wyk said what made the drafting of the budget extremely difficult is the fact that George is in dire need of upgrading, refurbishing and the provision of additional infrastructure for wastewater and water.  The plan is to position George in such a way that it is geared for the expected economic growth.

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