A stalemate ensued within the ANC caucus in the City of Johannesburg council when the party's councillors disagreed on who to vote for as the mayor. | JKwritingz
The party requested a three-hour adjournment of the council sitting, which started at 10:00 on Tuesday.
The initial agreement that the ANC had with its coalition partners was that it would throw its weight behind another Al Jama-Ah councillor after theAmad resigned after the ANC's initial arrangement with the Patriotic Alliance , which saw it win over the metro it had lost to a DA-led coalition, fell apart. The PA called for Amad's axing, and ActionSA tabled a vote of no confidence in Amad, who resigned before he could be removed.
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