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<\/div>\n– Advertisement –<\/span> Cape Town \u2013 Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma is waiting for a report from the Eastern Cape MEC and Amathole district municipality into the assault of a woman councillor during a meeting earlier this year.<\/p>\n Nanziwe Rulashe was dragged from the offices of the municipality and this led to the arrest of five men for the alleged assault.<\/p>\n This led the municipality to ask an independent panel to conduct an investigation into the incident. Dlamini Zuma said she was still waiting for that report.<\/p>\n A few days after the incident in the council offices, Rulashe\u2019s home was attacked in the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n Dlamini Zuma said since the incident, she has asked MEC Xolile Nqatha and the Amathole district municipality to furnish her with the report.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Amathole District Municipality has appointed an independent panel to investigate the matter and to submit the report to council. I have requested the municipality and MEC of Cogta to furnish me with the report, and I will update the response as soon as it is received,\u201d said Dlamini Zuma.<\/p>\n The minister was replying to a written question from the EFF, when she said she will provide an update on the matter as soon as the report has been submitted.<\/p>\n The men who are accused of assaulting Rulashe are out on bail and they were security guards in the municipality at the time.<\/p>\n Rulashe has since filed a multi-million rand lawsuit against Amathole municipality.<\/p>\n She has also spoken out strongly against the incident.<\/p>\n [email protected]<\/p>\n Political Bureau<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" – Advertisement – Cape Town \u2013 Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma is waiting for a report from the Eastern Cape MEC and Amathole district municipality into the assault of a woman councillor during a meeting earlier this year. Nanziwe Rulashe was dragged from the offices of the municipality and this led […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1064361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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