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Jesus saves, but Kaunda scores on the rebound - Three days and three nights of skulduggery keep the Son of Man out of Durban’s mayoral parlour

It’s a beautiful morning in Durban, the metro in which — unlike Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni — Jesus failed to come back in the mayoral elections that were finally wrapped up on Wednesday, three days and three nights — sort of — since He nearly made a triumphant return.

It took three days of collapsed meetings; late-night hustling of the one- and two-vote wonders who scored seats on 1 November; an alleged bending of the council’s own rules of procedure and — according to the Democratic Alliance — a couple of brown envelopes — to keep the mayoral chain in the governing party’s hands — or around its neck, to be more accurate — and stop the Second Coming of the Lord that former presidentIf the comrades hadn’t cut the power and staged a pitch invasion at inaugural...

 

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