Mashaba seeks ANC support for Dr Moya as new Mayor of Tshwane

ActionSA says it welcomes the decisive action taken by the City of Tshwane Councillors to remove Cilliers Brink as the Mayor of the capital city.

Brink was voted out in a motion of no confidence brought by the  African National Congress (ANC) and supported by other parties including the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), ActionSA and Patriotic Alliance (PA) on Thursday.

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba says they had to cut their relationship with the DA and work with the ANC to remove Brink because there was no service delivery in some parts of the metro, especially townships.

“I feel quite sad but at the same time prided because…have given ActionSA mandate to divorce this relationship with the DA because it was very toxic, insulting relationship very sad but at the same time gives us an opportunity to really try something new. We thought, at the beginning of 2021 that DA was a partner only to find out how wrong we were as they were prepared to stab us in the back.”

Mashaba says ActionSA hopes to have the support of the ANC and other parties in electing their candidate Tshwane Deputy Mayor Nasiphi Moya as the new mayor of the metro.

“Who knows this City better than Dr Moya? And they are happy for us to nominate, or recommend Dr Moya as our Executive Mayor. We will obviously serve the residents, we can stop this corruption, and we can stop this system of servicing other communities and not serving others. You must serve all the communities. You must collect the revenue to ensure that we can provide services, and we must provide clean drinkable water to the people of Hammanskraal. We will demonstrate to South Africans that we are capable of doing things on our own.”

DA reacts to Brink’s ousting as Tshwane Mayor

‘Introspection in GNU’

DA’s Gauteng leader Solly Msimanga says the ousting of their member Cilliers Brink, in the mayoral position, has offered them time to do an introspection in the GNU.

He says they are ready to search for a political party that is prepared to settle with them. But if all fails they will go back to strategise as a Gauteng Province and find out the meaning of the GNU to the DA.

Msimanga says the same players have been purging them at the provincial and local levels.