City of Ekurhuleni Executive Mayor survives another day in office

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The African Independent Congress’s Sivuyile Ngondwana has survived another day as the City of Ekurhuleni Executive Mayor. A motion of no confidence against Ngondwana has been tabled by Action SA and council was supposed to deal with the matter.

However, council speaker, Nthabiseng Tshivhenga had to adjourn the sitting to seek legal opinion. This after the ANC and the DA made amendments to their submissions.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) which is in support of the current mayor, has welcomed the adjournment.

“We have a firm believe that it is obviously in the best interest of the people of Ekurhuleni. Yes, there are challenges that we are working on to try and correct. The meeting has since stopped on the basis that there were issues of interpretation. The speaker made a ruling that the ANC actually wanted the speaker to reverse that particular ruling,” EFF’s Nkululeko Dunga explains.

The Ekurhuleni council has finally tabled the much-awaited Auditor General’s report.

The metro has received an unqualified report.

A representative from the AG’s office tabled the report in Tuesday’s heated seating.

City Manager, Imogen Mashazi has welcomed the report.

“We need to differentiate between finances and service delivery. Remember this is election year. People will protest and will say there is no service delivery. So, for us, as officials, as per the AG’s report has given us a clean audit in terms of performance, which talks to the service delivery standards. So, this thing of politicians saying there is no services and people protesting is outside our hands as officials,” says Mashazi.

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