News24 reports that Mzingisi Nkungwana, who had been acting city manager of Mangaung, had to be forcefully removed from his office.

A video clip of Nkungwana being removed circulated on social media on Tuesday. In the video, the metro police chief, Israel Kgamanyane, is seen pushing Nkungwana and trying to force him out of the office. Kgamanyane can also be heard saying: "I am just assisting you to go out." He then called security guards to assist, but the guards did not intervene. Nkungwana pushed his way to the office and sat on the couch, asking for his "pump". When he left the office, he said he was going to the police station. According to Sunday World, Nkungwana opened a case of assault against Kgamanyane. He reportedly said he was being targeted for "cleaning up the mess that is Mangaung". Before the incident, the mayor of Mangaung, Mxolisi Siyonzana, wrote to Kgamanyane to get Nkungwana to "comply with the contents of the letter written to him on the 14 April 2022". In that letter, Nkungwana was told to “desist from holding yourself out as the acting city manager and attempting [to] render any services in an attempt [to] perform the responsibilities of the office of the city manager.” The municipality's spokesperson, Qondile Khedama, advised that Nkungwana's contract had come to an end at the end of March. Khedama said that, from Thursday, the new acting city manager, Tebogo Motlashuping, "will temporarily take over the administration of Mangaung metro".

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Jeanette Chabalala and view the video clip at News24

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