The mayor of the Ditsobotla municipality in the North West has withdrawn her resignation letter she submitted to ANC speaker Fikile Jakene.
Provincial ANC spokesperson Tumelo Maruping said the municipal manager issue was not an item on the agenda, but rather an announcement made by the speaker which was part of the notices.
“It was not a motion and they did not understand that part. They thought the motion was sponsored by the ANC but it was not a motion, it was just an announcement that the MEC of Cogta [c had seconded an official from the department to become an acting municipal manager until council can constitute a meeting,” Maruping said.
The administrator, James Mashego, was a director from the department of Cogta and was seconded before the council was constituted. “That person was seconded in terms of section 154, which is allowed by the law, because there was no municipal manager or acting municipal manager,” Maruping said. He added that the previous administrator’s contract had ended on December 31, so Mashego was seconded to preside over the affairs of the council until such time as it was constituted.“There is going to be a council, which is yet to be announced by the speaker, and before council sits there is going to be a caucus and that decision will be made. As things stand now, we have not made a decision on that.
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