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The Mercury reports that tension between the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) and the uMkhanyakude Municipality in northern KZN is worsening, with the municipality accusing MEC Thulasizwe Buthelezi of misleading the public.
This accusation stems from an order handed down by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Friday. The SA Municipal Workers’ Union had taken the municipality and other defendants to court after workers' salaries were not paid due to a stand-off between Cogta and the municipality over the former’s decision to appoint an administrator. The stand-off triggered a freezing of the municipality’s bank account. The administrator was also blocked from entering the municipality's offices. In the order, the court addressed the issue of salaries and ordered that the first respondent (the municipality) and the fourth respondent (administrator Bamba Ndwandwe) work together to ensure that the wages of the workers were paid and that payments were made on time. The court stated that “this shall apply mutatis mutandis for future months for as long as the first respondent (uMkhanyakude) is under provincial intervention and for as long as the fourth respondent (Ndwandwe) is in office as the provincial representative.” Cogta noted that the order had affirmed its intervention as legal.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Thami Magubane at The Mercury
- Read too, Administrator Bamba Ndwandwe resumes duties after court ruling in uMkhanyakude, at IOL News
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