By hook or by crook, or even by the toss of a coin, the KwaZulu-Natal government is determined to force a small rural municipality to elect a mayor.Jozini has been unable to elect office bearers since the August 3 local government elections because the ANC and the IFP have the same number of councillors.Every vote has ended in deadlock and so, six weeks after the poll, Jozini has no mayor, no deputy mayor, no speaker and no chief whip. This has made it impossible for council committees to be formed.But now fed up co-operative governance MEC Nomusa Dube-Ncube wants to see some action."The political deadlock that has paralysed Jozini for weeks must come to an end tomorrow [Friday]," Dube-Ncube said yesterday."The people of Jozini expect their municipality to function as it should and fulfil its constitutional mandate without further delay."She has put strong rules in place for a full council meeting today - rules, she said, that would "make no provision for further procrastination"."No interruptions of tomorrow's council meeting will be tolerated, including requests for ad hoc caucus meetings This previously led to repeated breakdowns in proceedings," she said.In the event of a stalemate, said Dube-Ncube "the new leadership will be determined either by the tossing of the coin or by a draw".However, if either of the rival factions were to boycott today's council meeting there would no quorum and the meeting would have to be abandoned...