Embattled eThekwini deputy mayor Philani Mavundla has vowed to fight off attempts to remove him for the city’s executive committee.
This comes after a plan to make changes to the eThekwini executive committee stalled on Thursday after the last council meeting was adjourned due to a technicality.
The deal in question refers to an agreement between a bloc of smaller parties who had obtained a few seats in eThekwini during the 2021 local government elections, where they agreed to assist the ANC to keep control of the metro. “I also told them that they would be receiving a letter from my lawyers this afternoon. They have already received the letter telling them that we have an agreement.”
Mavundla said he loved the ANC and he was prepared to go to court to ensure that their marriage remained intact. “Last week there was supposed to be a day where the mayor had to swim but in the morning we were supposed to have gone to M4 south to hand over the contractor. I was never invited [although] the road falls under my cluster, but I respected that. So you can look between the lines and see who is doing what. I don’t interfere in the mayor’s cluster, I only deal with what is mine,” he said.
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