Frustrated civil society groups call for Gwamanda to be removed as Joburg mayor

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Organisations including the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation and the Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA) have expressed frustrations over what they describe as an incompetent leadership in the metro.

JOHANNESBURG - Calls are mounting from various civil society organisations for the removal of Kabelo Gwamanda as Johannesburg mayor.

Speaking during a media briefing in Johannesburg on Thursday, OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenage said that Gwamanda could longer be allowed to run the city into the ground. Rivonia Circle's Tessa Dooms said she'd lost faith in the African National Congress -led coalition government in the city.

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