BITOU mayor Lulama Mvimbi played host last weekend to Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and Western Cape premier Helen Zille, along with a host of national cabinet ministers, Western Cape MECs, senior officials and mayors from across the Garden Route.
IT came as no surprise to those of us who know Bitou Mayor Lulama Mvimbi when he played the race card yet again. It is old, tattered and battered, but play it he must, because it is the only card he has left to play.
KwaNokuthula residents disgraced Plett in a display of drunken hubris during the recent visit by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and Helen Zille to the township. One drunken resident kept calling Zille “baby”.
WESTERN Cape Premier Helen Zille raised questions about oversight institutions becoming politically aligned when responding to accusations of racism against her government at a weekend anti-poverty summit.
THE government’s war on poverty comes to Plettenberg Bay today, with the arrival of Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe at the head of a high- powered delegation of national Cabinet ministers, the provincial premier, deputy ministers, Western Cape MECs and local politicians.
[ September 24, 2010; 7:30 am to 11:30 am. ] Tickets are available at the DA office, next to Brett House on High Street, Monday to Thursday, 10 am – 1 pm through August. Click through for more info…
THE Bitou Municipality has refused to send its mayor or officials to answer to allegations of financial mismanagement before the Western Cape legislature’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa), saying the legislative body’s attempts to interfere are illegal.
BITOU’S new tourism advisory committee has been advised by the municipality to include more people in its structures from historically disadvantaged backgrounds.
This week at the Plett Movie House 3rd September to 9th September:Cats and Dogs, Grown Ups, Step Up 3… click through for more info…
