Chaos broke out as City of Cape Town councillors were about to conclude a six-hour-long council meeting, and led to a physical altercation between ANC and DA members. | MarvinCharles_
The scuffle forced the speaker, Felicity Purchase, to adjourn for a few minutes.
Angry ANC members threw bottles at DA members, and poured water on each other, prompting the speaker, Felicity Purchase, to adjourn for a few minutes. Two days after taking occupation, he was made aware that the electricity meters on the property had been tampered with. He stepped down voluntarily from his position last year.
News24's expert team takes you into the inner workings of politics in South Africa as we gear up for the 2024 national elections and beyond.But opposition parties believed there was a possibility that the committee was unconstitutional, and after deliberations, they requested a legal opinion. Nobody spoke as per the speaker's list. We did not have an issue with the outcome, but the legality of the disciplinary hearing's composition as it were.The EFF's Nosipho Makamba-Botya said the sanctions undermined the seriousness of the offence.
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said last week that police briefed him on its investigation and, on that basis, he decided to remove Booi from his position immediately."White people are superior in this DA-run City of Cape Town," Satarien said on Wednesday.Chairperson of the committee, Ian Neilson, defended the committee's recommendations about Badroodien.
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