Zolile Williams, the newly elected provincial treasurer of the ANC in the Eastern Cape, will not be drafting his resignation letter from his government job just yet.
Williams defended his decision to stand for a political position, citing the striking down of the Municipal Systems Amendment Act by the Constitutional Court in March 2020. The law barred municipal officials from participating in political organisations.
“Is there an immediate violation as we speak today? No, because of that legislation being set aside,” he said.The ANC also took a resolution that municipal officials should be barred from participating in political organisations, but legally there is still a chasm in that respect. Newly elected provincial chairperson Oscar Mabuyane vouched for Williams’ credentials, saying he was an ANC leader in his own right who had led in party structures before becoming a municipal manager.
He reiterated that the ANC took a policy decision that every member who is employed as per section 56 and above of the Act in the local government sphere is not expected to serve in the administration simultaneously while also occupying political office.
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