OPINION: The terrain in the NMBM is fluid and makes it difficult to predict the winner for the 2021 upcoming local government. The local elections will therefore probably produce further attempts at coalition-building, writes Dr Ntsikelelo Breakfast and Professor Gavin Bradshaw.
The 2021 local election promises to be one of the most interesting of the democratic era – not least for the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality Bay .
The regional leadership was rewarded with regional executive positions in the ANC after supporting the rise of former president Jacob Zuma to party presidency. On the other hand, Wayile alleged that Faku was interfering in his work as mayor, and wanted to use his party chairpersonship to do business with the municipality.
Moreover, according to the report , former mayor Nceba Faku did not adhere to the law and took decisions unilaterally, without consulting the council; this included the approval of a R2 million grant to improve the Madiba Bay Resort, and granting a broad-based BEE construction company a contract to build the Red Location Museum.
Tension soon grew between the new DA mayor, and his UDM deputy, and municipal council meetings grew increasingly conflicted, and majorities hard to acquire. On occasion, physical violence occurred, as when former ANC councillor Andile Lungisa broke a water jug over the head of a DA councillor. The UDM and DA could not settle their differences, and the DA then forged a second coalition, this time with the Patriotic Alliance, which had only one member in the council.
Voting patterns indicate the electorate still vote along racial lines. Historically, black townships have always tended to vote for the ANC, although in 2016 many die-hard ANC supporters stayed away from the polls. This was largely the result of ANC branches in disarray, dysfunctional ward committees, and the institutionalisation of corruption.
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