Engcobo council speaker Skosana Mbolo referred DispatchLIVE to acting mayor Kaya Bizana, who promised said a statement was still being prepared.
Today, Matilda Maneli, wife of ANC Amathole district Mayor Khanyile Maneli was buried at Dyamala location in Alice after she succumbed to Covid-19. She tested positive on May 18 and died over the weekend at Stutterheim hospital.
Matilda was an administration clerk at the departmental stores in Victoria hospital in Alice. Mayor Maneli had tested negative of Covid-19.
Maneli family spokesperson Sithembele Zuka said on Sunday the family was struggling to come to terms with the passing of Maneli's wife since it happened within a short space of time.
“It's very painful considering the fact that she was ill only for a week,” he said.