OFM News earlier reported that a report detailing the four-month-old Mangaung Metro council is expected to be tabled in Parliament this week. Members of Parliament and the Selected Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Water and Sanitation in the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) lambasted the Metro’s executive mayor, Mxolisi Siyonzana, and his senior management. The Mangaung Concerned Community (MCC) spokesperson, Themba Zweni, called on the municipal council to be desolved as a result of issues troubling residents of Mangaung.

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“The MCC is here because of Mzingisi [Nkungwana], the MCC is here because of his arrogance, the MCC is here because this municipality no longer exists. We are still waiting for Mzingisi [Nkungwana]… actually we no longer want to talk to him, we no longer want to talk to Siyonzana, we want a decision by provincial government to dissolve this municipality,” said Zweni.

OFM News previously reported that Nkungwana was elected in February as the new acting City Manager of Mangaung, to replace Teboho Maine.

MCC members denying an employee access to the Bram Fischer Building and taking him off the premises. VIDEOGRAPHER: Kekeletso Mosebetsi

The metro is still under administration. It was placed under administration in December 2019 for failing to perform its basic functions of delivering services to residents in the metro. It is also the first metro in the country to be placed under administration. This is a developing story.

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