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Action needed against municipalities

a text message from a family member moments before I started writing this column gave me a glimmer of hope that maybe the rot in our municipalities will begin to be addressed.

Apparently the Hawks (the police’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation) is swooping down on the Kai !Garib municipality’s head office in Keimoes in the Northern Cape to make arrests for tender fraud. Earlier in February, the Hawks also arrested Buti Piet Molupi, the municipal manager of the Nala municipality (Bothaville) in the

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