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One of the six remaining informal tyre business containers on Joubert Street caught fire on Wednesday evening. The blaze reignited Thursday morning amid an ongoing dispute between informal traders and the municipality over trading space. Picture: ABONGILE SOLUNDWANA

Traders dispute container removals, claim paid permits

Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality removed 14 containers in Jobert Street behind Lukhanji Mall in Komani on Monday and Tuesday, citing public safety and illegal dumping concerns due to unlawful business operations. Only six containers were…

Gallery: Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality (EMLM) demolishes Silvertown shacks.

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The Lesseyton Sports Facility in the Enoch Mgijima local municipality.Image: FACEBOOK

Enoch Mgijima workers receiving double salaries

More than 80% of Enoch Mgijima local municipality employees are paid double salaries, with general workers, who are meant to earn R8,000, receiving R18,000 per month. This is yet another scandal the National Cabinet Representative (NCR)…

Fikile Gwadana Drive road tender process not transparent, costs astronomical – judge

Confusing amounts and a tender process that lacked transparency were some of the reasons the high court in Makhanda granted an interdict to stop the Fikile Gwadana Drive road rehabilitation project in Ezibeleni, pending a review…

ROBBERY SCENE: Armed robbers held Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality (EMLM) employees and those of a contractor at gunpoint at the budget and treasury offices and made off with an amount of money believed to be R70 000 earlier today Picture: ABONGILE SOLUNDWANA

EMLM confirms robbers held staff at gunpoint, fled with cash

The Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality (EMLM) has opened a case of armed robbery after robbers pounced on the budget and treasury and traffic department offices in Komani this morning. In a statement released a short while ago, EMLM…

UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Roadworks in Pambo Street Picture: ZINTLE BOBELO

Mlungisi road repairs to be completed in July – EMLM

An R18.8 million road repair project in Pambo Street, Mlungisi is currently underway. Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality spokesperson Lonwabo Kowa said the revised completion date for the project is the end of July 2022. Read full story in…

COMMUNITY PROTEST: Residents of Unifound and nearby areas including T and S sections, say electricity problems force their children to miss school Picture: LUVUYO MJEKULA

Komani electricity crisis boils over as residents block roads in protest

Angry residents of Unifound and nearby S and T sections are protesting over electricity problems they say have affected them for the past five days. The residents, who have been without electricity since Sunday, April 17, started their…

BAD STATE: The controversial R15m Lesseyton sports facility has been left in a sorry state Picture: ZINTLE BOBELO

‘R15m’ Lesseyton sports field left to deteriorate

While multiple investigations are under way into alleged irregularities in the tender process of the questionable R15m Lesseyton sports field, the facility has been left in a sorry state, with no maintenance seemingly taking place as…

INSPECTION: Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane and deputy Public Protector Kholeka Gcaleka engaging with Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality mayor Thembeka Bunu at the controversial R15m Lesseyton sports field Picture: ZINTLE BOBELO

Mkhwebane says Lesseyton sports field not a R15m facility

Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane gave a scathing assessment of the controversial R15m Lesseyton sports field earlier today, indicating that the facility could not have cost more than R1m and that the money could have been spent on…

Motshekga, Korean govt hand over ablution facility to Tambo Village school

Nkosemntu Motman Combined Primary School in Tambo Village was one of six schools to receive an ablution facility after minister of basic education Angie Motshekga requested support from the Embassy of the Republic of Korea. Earlier today,…

DEMANDING ANSWERS: Owners whose businesses on the N6 outside Komani have been hit by electricity outages, rocked up at the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality technical services offices earlier today to demand electricity Picture: LUVUYO MJEKULA

Businesses, residents take electricity grievances to technical services

Frustrated business owners on the N6 outside Komani, who say they have been using their own trucks, fuel, money, personnel and time to respond to never-ending power outages, descended on the technical services offices of the Enoch Mgijima…

ROAD CLOSURE: Angry protestors barricaded this part of Victoria Road in Mlungisi this morning Picture: LUVUYO MJEKULA

Chaos erupts in Komani as protestors block roads

There are chaotic scenes in Komani as angry protestors have been blocking certain roads leading into the CBD this morning, forcing motorists to use alternative routes and leaving some commuters stranded. Police fired teargas to disperse a…

BLAZE: Komani Town Hall gutted by fire Picture: ZINTLE BOBELO

BREAKING NEWS| Komani Town Hall gutted by fire

The historical Komani Town Hall building which houses the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality council went up in flames in the early hours of this morning. Municipal officials, local residents and law enforcement officers were at the scene…

Disgruntled Molteno residents block roads in protest action

A discontented group of Molteno residents who demanded the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality mayor to intervene and provide answers regarding improper recruitment processes followed in a waste management programme, staged a protest action…

FIRST COUNCIL MEETING: The inaugural council meeting of Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality is underway at the Town Hall following the November 1 local government elections Picture: ABONGILE SOLUNDWANA

EMLM inaugural council meeting currently underway

With the deadline looming to convene the first full council meeting to elect an executive mayor and speaker, the Enoch Mgijima Local Municipality’s inaugural council meeting is currently underway. Municipalities have until November 23 to…