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The Speaker of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality Council, Alfred Mtsi has passed away in the early hours of Sunday morning following Covid-19 complications.
Executive Mayor, Xola Pakati says he was admitted to hospital on Tuesday night.
"This happened just a week after we lost two dedicated community leaders Councillor Norexe and Councillor Mankayi. These leaders had a strong collegial bond with the Speaker of Council based on the programme of creating a better life for all the residents of Buffalo City Metro. Whilst still grieving for these leaders we received this devastating and shattering news of the passing on of Councillor Mtsi", Pakati said.
He says Mtsi served as the Provincial Chairperson of trade union federation, COSATU when he was its Deputy Chairperson in 1998.
Pakati says the two of them also served the people of the Eastern Cape in the Provincial Legislature and when the ANC wanted to bring stability and confidence in the Municipality in the wake of the Nelson Mandela funeral scandal, it deployed Mtsi as Executive Mayor.
The Mayor conveyed his condolences to the family.
