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‘Greater Taung Municipal Manager deposed after qualificat​ions fiasco’

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BY STAFF REPORTER
Taung- It is not pouring but raining at Greater Taung Local Municipality after the latest fiasco.

Beleaguered Greater Taung Municipality council was forced to show its Municipal Manager the door after qualifications ludicrous hardly a year in office.

According to the opposition party ACDP, the EXCO did not follow the correct measures when hiring Katlego Gabanakgosi.

ACDP representative Gaolatlhwe Tshipo told Vaaltar FM that according to requirements needed in hiring  Municipal Manager, Gabanakgosi did not meet the requirements.

“On Monday the North West High Court confirmed that the measures used to hire a municipal manager were not correct. The court ruled in our favour and we do not care who is hired, the point is whether that person meets requirements or not” Tshipo said.

On Monday the North West High Court ruled in opposition party’s favour after they launched a complaint.

According to the information, the council dropped the standard of needed requirements to accommodates Gabanakgosi.

Greater Taung Local Municipality mayor Kaone Lobelo said they will not appeal the decision and will follow the regulations guiding them in what’s needed from a municipal manager candidate.

“We will not appeal the court decision and we will advertise the post as you know we are guided by the regulations and rules. The EXCO will appoint interim Manager while waiting for the right candidate who will fill the gap” Lobelo said.

It is alleged that Gabanakgosi is a qualified engineer only, nothing more.

The Greater Taung Municipality has been in the news for all wrong-doing recently.

The sinister started when deposed Municipal Manager Mpho Mofokeng tried to keep himself afloat in the office, but eventually a court battle sent him packing.
-TDN
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Afriforum ‘defender of white priviledge’

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 The ANCYL has issued a statement calling AfriForum “the defender of white privilege”.

AfriForum and TAU SA are preparing to lay charges against ANC Youth League deputy president Ronald Lamola over comments he made about land reform, the groups said on Wednesday.

“AfriForum intends to lay charges against Lamola at both the Equality Court and the police in order to ensure that inciting statements of this nature are called to order,” the organisation’s legal representative Willie Spies said in a statement.

He said Lamola’s comments amounted to hate speech and fell within the definitions of incitement to violence.

On Tuesday, Lamola said the Constitution must be changed to allow the expropriation of land without compensation.

He warned that if white South Africans did not hand land over to poor blacks, there could be land invasions like those that took place in Zimbabwe.

The Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU SA) said it was “disgusted” by Lamola’s comments and would file a complaint to the SA Human Rights Commission.

“TAU SA has instructed its legal team to start with the strongest possible measures against Lamola, the ANC Youth League, the ANC and its president.”

Spies said Lamola specifically referred to “the van Tonders and the van der Merwes on farms” and warned that their safety could not be guaranteed.

ANC Youth League spokeswoman Magdalene Moonsamy said the groups needed to be “ready for the fight of their lives”.

“We welcome this battle, and we will not retreat. We are adamant that this issue of land cannot be negotiated, and at no point will we back down,” she said.

“It is fine if certain structures in Afrikaner society want to lay complaints – we will find and meet them wherever they do so.”

“We reaffirm the statement made by (Lamola) that those who continue to hold land which was illegally and immorally taken away from the indigenous people of South Africa must voluntarily co-operate with the ANC-led government (to) ensure swift and equitable redistribution of such land to the masses of our people.”

The league again warned it might not be able to stem the impatience of the millions of landless South Africans.

“Such a precautionary note raising the hopeless plight of our people, blacks in general and Africans in particular, can only be construed as an incitement to violence…by those hell-bent to protect white minority privilege at the expense of the black majority.”

The league said if it was to achieve economic freedom there needed to be “urgent, unapologetic and radical land redistribution”. – Sapa


Hate speech charges levelled at Lamola

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AfriForum and TAU SA are preparing to lay charges against ANC Youth League deputy president Ronald Lamola over comments he made about land reform, the groups said on Wednesday.

“AfriForum intends to lay charges against Lamola at both the Equality Court and the police in order to ensure that inciting statements of this nature are called to order,” the organisation’s legal representative Willie Spies said in a statement.

He said Lamola’s comments amounted to hate speech and fell within the definitions of incitement to violence.

The Transvaal Agricultural (TAU SA) said it was “disgusted” by Lamola’s comments and would file a complaint to the Human Rights Commission.

“TAU SA has instructed its legal team to start with the strongest possible measures against Lamola, the ANC Youth League, the ANC and its president.”

On Tuesday, Lamola said the Constitution must be changed to allow the expropriation of land without compensation.

He warned that if white South Africans did not hand land over to poor blacks, there could be land invasions like those that took place in Zimbabwe.

Spies said Lamola specifically referred to, among others, “the van Tonders and the van der Merwes on farms” and warned that their safety cannot be guaranteed.

African National Congress Youth League spokeswoman Magdalene Moonsamy said the groups needed to be “ready for the fight of their lives”.

“We welcome this battle, and we will not retreat. We are adamant that this issue of land cannot be negotiated, and at no point will we back down,” she said.

“It is fine if certain structures in Afrikaner society want to lay complaints – we will find and meet them wherever they do so.” – Sapa