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The City of Johannesburg will hold its first a council meeting after its last sitting was postponed when a transformer at the Metro Centre building caught fire last month the premises without electricity or water.
With Jozi taps having run dry and residents scrambling to find water, water minister Senzo Mchunu called a meeting to find solutions. But Joburg's No 1 citizen Kabelo Gwamanda gave Mchunu's meeting a miss and instead attended the renaming of William Nicol Drive as Winnie Mandela Drive, writes Hogarth.
Johannesburg mayor Kabelo Gwamanda is back at his post after an “illness” that resulted in the abrupt adjournment of last week's state of the city debate.
This is the third time Gwamanda has appeared to evade accountability, after damning allegations that he used to run a funeral burial scheme and scammed communities out of their payouts.
Patriotic Alliance (PA) deputy leader Kenny Kunene is the latest to weigh in on Johannesburg mayor Kabelo Gwamanda's qualifications saga, saying whether he finished matric was irrelevant because he is “God anointed”.