There is considerable uncertainty around whether Nelson Mandela Bay metro still has its DA mayor, Retief Odendaal. Eastern Cape MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Zolile Williams has promulgated a decision to change the municipality’...
A change in the structure of the Nelson Mandela Bay metro, promulgated earlier this month, has in effect removed the Democratic Alliance’s executive mayor, Retief Odendaal, from his position, as there is no apparent interim mechanism created in the law for this type of decision.
The ANC holds 48 seats in the metro’s council, as does the DA. Smaller parties make up the rest of the seats. Under the new system, the ANC, DA, EFF and the Northern Alliance will serve on the executive committee, while smaller parties will sit in council but not in the political leadership body. Williams, a widely respected municipal manager before entering politics, said the new coalition government was very unstable.He said the coalition remained unregulated as it was nothing more than a “gentlemen’s agreement” and unenforceable.
He said a concern was raised that the municipality had become factionalised and politicised during the ANC-led coalition government that originally came into power in November 2021, and that administrators would only respond to certain political figures. He said the current coalition government is successfully addressing the backlog in service delivery and there were no threats to its stability.
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