20 Mei 2011
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ANC A NC is tight-lipped about new mayor The outgoing executive mayor of Tzaneen, Mr O J Mushwana, arrived just before 07:00 at Unicorn Preparatory School to cast his vote in the 2011 municipal elections. Photo: Retha Nel
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Job losses highest in Limpopo
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GTM’s agri project a failure
Francois Aucamp sentatives. As expected support for For the Mopani District the ANC is still very strong Council a total of 27 635 in the jurisdiction of the votes were cast from within Greater Tzaneen Munici- the GTM’s jurisdiction. pality. However, Ward 15, The total votes cast from which basically covers the withing the GTM’s area town of Tzaneen, has been thus adds up to 82 817. retained by the DA. In the mean time the next At the time of going to press move that will interest peothe audited results were ple is the election of a not yet available and new mayor for the it was not possible to GTM, since Mr O quote detailed voJ Mushwana has ting trends or the retired from this exact performance position (read by the different parour report on ties. page 3 and also The Bulletin our Comment managed to get on page 6). the preliminary The ANC is result for Ward tight-lipped 15, where the DA about their canMboweni got 1 605 votes, didate. the ANC 541, the Freedom Mr Mudumo Napoleon Front 8 and the ACDP 13. Mboweni, an exco memAccording to the IEC a to- ber, has been named as the tal of only 27 487 votes in favourite in the past, but it the GTM’s area were cast seems that he has recently for ward councillors and 27 been replaced as the GTM’s 695 for proportional repre- No 1 candidate.
Me Desiree van der Walt, die DA in Limpopo se leier, het ook Woensdag in Tzaneen stemlokale besoek. Sy het me S J Kinley van Tzaneen, wat op pad was vir ‘n operasie, persoonlik by haar huis gaan oplaai en na die stembus by die Laerskool Tzaneen geneem. Foto: Retha Nel