Bid to keep councils true to mandate
Cogta wants powers to be taken away from mayors, committees to run show
With barely a year since the November local government elections and coalitions across the country being in tatters, the Eastern Cape department of co-operative government and traditional affairs (Cogta) may have an innovative solution.
Cogta wants to introduce a collective executive with a ward participatory system that will take powers away from a mayor and allow a new committee to run proceedings...
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