Political stalemate as ANC and DA dispute delays eThekwini Metro mayoral election

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Political stalemate as ANC and DA dispute delays eThekwini Metro mayoral election
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ANC mayoral candidate Cyril Xaba has already replaced Mxolisi Kaunda as a councillor

Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Cyril Xaba, 57, has served as an ANC MPL in KwaZulu-Natal from 1994 and became the agriculture MEC in 2014.

The ANC has entered into a government of provincial unity led by the Inkatha Freedom Party and which includes the DA and the National Freedom Party . “Let’s introduce him,” ActionSA councillor Zwakhele Mncwango said to laughter from the opposition benches. “We want to see him.”ANC and DA speakers were repeatedly heckled over their budding relationship nationally and in the province by the EFF and the smaller parties who had helped the ANC keep control of the city in the mayoral elections since November 2021, when it lost its outright majority.

Similarly, the IFP and the DA maintained their opposition to a decision by the city in May 2023 to borrow R1.5 billion to pay for infrastructure upgrades and repairs to damage sustained in a series of natural disasters since 2022.

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