governance history status quo of municipality the term 2011 to 2016 in the mnquma local municipality has never had any stability to date. the municipality is comprised of butterworth, centane and ngqamakwe. the political squabbles date back when municipality speaker nomnikelo magadla claimed, in one of the interviews with ikamva lasegcuwa, she was made “a lone woman” in her office. the speaker claimed she was denied given and “secretary and a manager” by the municipality. she said this made work difficult for her as she has to do “everything” by herself. then from what was anticipated, prior to 2011 local government elections, as the unifying force between mayor bhabha ganjana and magadla turned sour. the unifying force because the two had promised people of mnquma that they will bring unit into the council following years of differences and squabbles before their term of office. instead the community of mnquma has seen two political camps