The DA was left with egg on its face as some of its members seemed to have jumped ship and voted with the ANC, as Geoff Makhubo was elected mayor of Johannesburg.
This was not the only embarrassment the party faced today, as their cooperative governance partners also changed alliances and handed Johannesburg back to the ANC.
Three candidates were up for the vacant mayoral position, the EFF’s Musa Novela , the DA’s Funzela Ngobeni and Makhubo .All 120 ANC councillors in attendance voted for Makhubo, with it’s alliance partners making up the rest.The other parties that voted were IFP, AIC, PA, Al-Jamah, FF+, ACDP, UDM and Cope.
No spoilt votes or abstentions were recorded at the council sitting after all 268 members in attendance voted. “They [the members who voted with the ANC] will have to live with the knowledge that they turned against the DA,” said Moriaty.
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