The politics of Nelson Mandela Bay is a combination of corruption, ladled with personal animus, spiced with racial rhetoric and stirred together by patronage. One of the chief chefs is the mayor, the UDM's Mongameli Bobani. While the other cooks want him to leave the kitchen, he's refusing to hand over the apron. Welcome to the nasty side of what coalition politics can cook up.
The list of colourful characters in Nelson Mandela Bay is impressive, even by South African standards.
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