EFF to help boys
JOHANNESBURG - The EFF in North West will dispatch its Gender-Based Violence (GBV) desk to the victims of an ANC councillor who was arrested in connection with their statutory rapes at the weekend. The councillor from the Matlosana municipality is known to TimesLIVE but is not being named until he has pleaded to the two counts of statutory rape with which he has been charged. His alleged victims are two teenage boys from Kanana in North West. The alleged rapes were reportedly exposed after a video was leaked showing what is believed to be the 40-year-old councillor engaged in sexual acts with one of the children.
Water tariff increase
DURBAN - The eThekwini municipality plans to increase water tariffs by 14.9 per cent as it has lost R1.9bn due to illegal connections and corroded infrastructure leading to leaks. About 618,465kl was lost daily in the last financial year, according to the auditor-general’s (AG) last financial year report, costing R1.99 billion. In 2020/21 the municipality lost R1.75 billion through water losses. The AG report said 56 per cent of water meant for residents was lost. While water Chatsworthstrugglewithsupply. trickles away residents in Umlazi, Folweni, Ngonyameni, KwaMakhutha, Osindisweni, Adams and JOHANNESBURG - ANC President, Cyril Ramaphosa has called on party members and leaders to ensure that, through campaigning and visibility across the country, the party wins with an out-right majority in next year’s general elections.
Ramaphosa was delivering a virtual address to party structures during its two-day National Elections Strategy workshop in Boksburg on Gauteng’s East Rand.
The debate on a possibility of a coalition government, both at a national and provincial level, continues to gain momentum, with political parties vowing to go all out in making sure that the ANC dips below the 50 per cent mark.
The party won the 2019 elections with 57 per cent of the vote. Ramaphosa says the ANC has an obligation to make sure that victory is certain in 2024.
“If we can master this, how we carry our campaign forward, how we plaster the whole country, wall to wall with an ANC message, and have really effective volunteers as of old in our campaigning method, this election is ours and victory is certain.”