Engcobo mayor tests positive for Covid-19

Siyabulela Zangqa, the mayor of Engcobo Local Municipality  has tested positive for Covid-19. This news were shared among the councillors of Engcobo municipality today. All those councillors were who made contact with the mayor were urged to go and test.

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.