‘We’ll be a good opposition’ says ousted DA Ekurhuleni mayor - Tania Campbell has accepted her removal as mayor by a mere seven votes
, which contested its first elections last year, garnered 15 seats. The EFF abstained from voting in Wednesday’s motion.
She listed a string of what she said were the achievements her administration had achieved in less than a year in charge, including early childhood development centres in the townships of Katlehong and Vosloorus, as well as the electrification of 1 367 households. “Every one of the parties represented in the multi-party coalition has served diligently and carried out their responsibilities for the betterment of the residents of Ekurhuleni. They conducted themselves with the humility befitting of elected office bearers.”said the victory was nothing to celebrate as Ekurhuleni’s finances were in a shambles.