ActionSA in Ekurhuleni notes the EFF Speaker’s decision to reconvene the collapsed council meeting on Tuesday, 12 March at 10:00, in which our motion against the Puppet Mayor Ngodwana was supposed to be heard.
This comes after 193 out of 224 councillors signed a petition for council to be reconvened today 7 March, however, the EFF Speaker of Council, Cllr Nthabiseng Tshivhenga, has decided to unilaterally call for council to sit rather on Tuesday, 12 March.
It is clear the Speaker cannot be trusted to chair another council meeting in which her fighters will simply collapse the meeting once again. Cllr Tshivhenga has from the very beginning of her tenure, been unable to separate herself from her political party, the EFF, and chair council in an unbiased manner.
ActionSA insists that the City’s finances need to be stablised, the institutional review rapidly implemented, and quality services delivered to our residents as soon as possible. This cannot take place until both the EFF’s puppet Mayor Ngodwana, and their delinquent Speaker are removed from their positions.
Added to this, the much-anticipated Auditor General’s report of the City’s finances have still not been tabled, violating the Municipal Finance Management Act deadline of January 31st, which puts the City closer to being placed on junk status by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
The EFF in government has been a disaster class in public administration, and their inability to separate party and state represents a very real threat to democratic norms and principles that govern our local municipalities. ActionSA looks forward to political change that will begin fixing the mess the unholy matrimony that this coalition has created in Ekurhuleni.
ActionSA Notes Reconvening of Collapsed Council Meeting by Delinquent EFF Speaker
ActionSA in Ekurhuleni notes the EFF Speaker’s decision to reconvene the collapsed council meeting on Tuesday, 12 March at 10:00, in which our motion against the Puppet Mayor Ngodwana was supposed to be heard.
This comes after 193 out of 224 councillors signed a petition for council to be reconvened today 7 March, however, the EFF Speaker of Council, Cllr Nthabiseng Tshivhenga, has decided to unilaterally call for council to sit rather on Tuesday, 12 March.
It is clear the Speaker cannot be trusted to chair another council meeting in which her fighters will simply collapse the meeting once again. Cllr Tshivhenga has from the very beginning of her tenure, been unable to separate herself from her political party, the EFF, and chair council in an unbiased manner.
ActionSA insists that the City’s finances need to be stablised, the institutional review rapidly implemented, and quality services delivered to our residents as soon as possible. This cannot take place until both the EFF’s puppet Mayor Ngodwana, and their delinquent Speaker are removed from their positions.
Added to this, the much-anticipated Auditor General’s report of the City’s finances have still not been tabled, violating the Municipal Finance Management Act deadline of January 31st, which puts the City closer to being placed on junk status by the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.
The EFF in government has been a disaster class in public administration, and their inability to separate party and state represents a very real threat to democratic norms and principles that govern our local municipalities. ActionSA looks forward to political change that will begin fixing the mess the unholy matrimony that this coalition has created in Ekurhuleni.