SANDILE MOTHA
THE Nquthu local municipality on the KwaZulu-Natal far north remains without an elected mayor and, according to residents, this is hampering service delivery.
The mayoral post became vacant in February this year after former IFP mayor Siyabonga Mabilabila Kunene was forced to relinquish his position after facing legal woes pertaining to a murder plot.
The municipal council moved to elect IFP councillor Nothile Zungu to fill the post in an acting capacity.
Zungu, also the deputy mayor, spent only three months in her new post before the IFP caucus, the majority party in the council decided to elect Zama Shabalala as the permanent mayor.
The ANC, however, took issue with the election of Shabalala, raising procedural matters and that the meeting to elect him was unconstitutional.
This resulted in the emergence of two mayors, Shabalala was handed the mayoral chain and recognised as the duly elected mayor
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