Ekurhuleni mayor, speaker to face motion of no confidence in same council sitting

The mayor of the City of Ekurhuleni will face a motion of no confidence alongside the speaker of council, according to ActionSA.

Opposition parties are hoping for a successful attempt at voting out the mayor of the City of Ekurhuleni Sivuyile Ngodwana.will face a motion of no confidence alongside the speaker of council, according to ActionSA’s regional leader Siyanda Makhubo.

“Council will once again hear our motion in mayor Sivuyile Ngodwana as well as a motion in the delinquent EFF speaker of council, Nthabiseng Tshivhenga,” Makhubo said.Makhubo said ActionSA had managed to gather enough support behind the motion against both council leaders, this included support from the DA and the ANC.“The ANC has withdrawn its revisions to our motion, and we expect the DA will do the same in order to have this matter resolved as quickly as possible,” Makhubo said.

Makhubo said ActionSA insists that the city’s finances need to be stabilised and the institutional review rapidly implemented. There were reports of differences between the ANC in Ekurhuleni and the ANC in the province concerning the viability of the ANC remaining in a problematic coalition with the EFF.

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