Thembi Nkadimeng has come a long way from her days as a student activist to mayor and now as president of the SA Local Government Association (SALGA).
Nkadimeng’s calm demeanor belies the huge responsibilities of heading a local municipality and a national organisation looking after local government structures when we meet on a warm afternoon at a trendy Polokwane restaurant.
She looks anything but a strained administrator leading a national body tasked with helping the country to get to work at a time when evidence suggests local government structures are on the brink of total collapse.
If you met her in a social gathering you wouldn’t even know she carries the added burden of years of fighting a difficult battle to resolve the mysterious disappearance of her activist sister, Umkhonto we Sizwe undercover agent Nokuthula Simelane.
Simelane who disappeared while on a MK mission in Johannesburg from Swaziland
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