The Democratic Alliance’s Nelson Mandela Bay mayor, Retief Odendaal, said that he is strongly against any possible future coalition with the ANC.
Speculation over who the DA will enter into a coalition with should the governing party dip below 50% in next year’s national election is part of the debate at the DA elective conference in Johannesburg this weekend.
that the DA in his metro was embroiled in a legal battle with the province’s Cogta MEC, Zolile Williams, because the ANC wanted to “force a working relationship” with the blue party. reported that Williams gazetted a proposed change in the governance system of the metro which would see Nelson Mandela Bay moving away from a mayoral executive to a collective executive system.
Odendaal has spent almost seven months in his position, no mean feat in a volatile environment where mayors in coalition municipalities are frequently chopped and changed. The city’s administration has taken a decision to “protect” businesses from stages one to four load-shedding. The crisis is the result of an extended drought, water wastage through leaking pipes and taps that take months to repair, political instability and the effect that has on administration and implementation of projects, as well as poor management of water infrastructure.
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