Threats by Nelson Mandela Bay ANC councillor Andile Lungisa to storm the offices of Gray Moodliar Inc are concerning given his history, the high court in Makhanda was told on Thursday – the same day his lawyers were given the go-ahead to appeal against his jail term for assault to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA).

Allegations of how mayor Mongameli Bobani drove the municipality’s law firm out – allegedly to suit his own agenda – and then convinced councillors to vote blindly in his favour formed centre stage in argument before acting judge Margaux Beard...