OPINION | Like almost everything else it touches, the ANC has successfully reduced the lofty and honourable position of city mayor into a joke. Only, it is one that is not that funny. We have to laugh through the tears, writes HowardFeldman.
Joburg mayor Kabelo Gwamanda. Photo: Sydney Seshibedi/Gallo Images
Over the weekend, it was revealed that party leaders spoke to the relatives of new Joburg mayor Kabelo Gwamanda to vet him for his crucial position.writes that he doesn't think if he was in a similar position his relatives would have vouched for him. Like almost everything else it touches, the ANC has successfully reduced the lofty and honourable position of city mayor into a joke. Only, it is one that is not that funny. We have to laugh through the tears. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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