As Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille waits to learn her fate at the weekend, she has threatened to take legal action against those who accused her of using taxpayers' money to upgrade her house. De Lille was placed on special leave after mayoral committee member JP Smith, accused her of benefitting unlawfully from the upgrades. She allowed eNCA cameras into her home, in a bid to show that she […]
Patricia de Lille has until Friday to give reasons to the DA as to why she should not resign as mayor of Cape Town. This follows a postponement of the initial deadline that the party's federal executive gave to De Lille‚ following an investigation by a subcommittee of the federal executive. The subcommittee found sufficient management and governance-related challenges prevalent in the DA’s City of Cape Town caucus‚ negatively impacting […]
Level 6 water restrictions will be the new normal for Capetonians as of the 1 January 2018, as the City of Cape Town throttles back on excessive water use. With increased concern that Day Zero could be sooner than anticipated, the city is now pushing ahead to save as much water as possible. The implementation of the latest water restrictions for the Western Cape water supply system follows the directive […]
Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille says the Democratic Alliance does not have sufficient reason to remove her. The DA's federal executive announced on Thursday that De Lille would be suspended from party activities - pending investigations - and that it had asked her to give reasons why she should not resign as mayor. She said in a statement on Sunday that if the party proceeded with steps to go […]
Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille, who has come under fire recently with staffers making damaging claims against her, has been given until Monday to respond to several allegations she faces. In September, it emerged that a subcommittee, headed by parliamentary whip John Steenhuisen, was established by the DA's federal executive to look into tensions and political management in the City of Cape Town. This subcommittee, convened by DA leader […]
The ANC in Cape Town wants South Africa's elite crime-busting unit to probe allegations of wrongdoing and corruption which implicate mayor Patricia de Lille. Last month the city was rocked by an allegation by Craig Kesson, executive director at De Lille's office, that she had asked him to bury a report on possible corruption. Kesson further implicated transport and urban development agency commissioner Melissa Whitehead and city manager Achmat Ebrahim […]
Minister of Finance Malusi Gigaba has approved the City of Cape Town's request to deviate from Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA) regulations to urgently deal with the drought, the City said on Monday. The City in a statement said Gigaba informed it that he had been advised that potential regulatory challenges might hamper successful implementation of water resilience measures whose aim is to help the City continue to provide water […]
Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille is on Wednesday expected to announce further plans to deal with the city’s water shortage. The "Water Resilience Plan", which will be tabled in the city council, is expected to include increased measures to avoid acute water shortages. A chief resilience officer had been appointed, the city said in a statement. It said the drought in the province had reached its most critical level […]
Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille says saving water in the province should be a collective effort among residents, business and government. She was addressing the business sector on the water situation in the Western Cape on Tuesday night as dam levels stand at only 20 percent with about ten percent of usable water left. De Lille says they have set aside R22 million to employ more people to repair […]
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