THE SPEAKER of Thembelihle Municipality, Danny Jonas, has branded the MEC and HOD for the Department of Co-operative Governance, Human Settlement and Traditional Affairs (Coghsta), as well as the chief director of co-operative governance, as being “pathological liars” for blaming him for plunging the municipality into disarray.
Thembelihle mayor Leonard McKenna and Jonas believe that the ANC and the MEC for Coghsta, Bentley Vass, were orchestrating a “coup d'état” in an attempt to gain political control of the municipality.
Council has six opposition councillors and five ANC councillors, with an EFF mayor and a Siyathemba Community Movement Speaker - whose membership is currently in dispute.
McKenna and Jonas stated that implicated high-ranking municipal officials, as well as ANC leaders, were doing everything possible to prevent damning findings contained in a…
