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SABC

The South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) in the North West is calling for the dissolution of the provincial South African Local Government Association (Salga). The call was made during Sanco's general council meeting at Klerksdorp in the North West. Sanco says many elected SALGA officials, including most at both provincial and local government, should be expelled, for allegedly fuelling factionalism within the ANC. Sanco claims that they have close links with the disbanded Provincial Executive Committee.

The general council meeting is preparing for its elective provincial conference later this year. Sanco lamented the state of local government in the province which it described as being in a state of collapse. It says fraud, corruption, and maladministration are affecting service delivery in the province.

Sanco demands that allegedly corrupt and rotten officials must be expelled from structures of governance.

Meanwhile, hundreds of Food & Allied Workers' Union( Fawu) members from the four provinces of Gauteng, North West, Mpumalanga and the Free State, marched to the Labour department offices in Klerksdorp.

They are demanding intervention from the Labour department, against alleged exploitation by their employers. The department has promised to look into the challenges faced by the workers as a matter of urgency.