Dissatisfied minority parties in the City of Ekurhuleni (CoE) launched a motion of no confidence against the Executive Mayor Doctor Xhakaza, accusing him of failure to steer the city in the right direction.
However, the mayor has in response claimed corrupt senior municipal officials orchestrated this motion to halt investigations into an R2b scandal, with the bone of contention being a council agenda item that seeks to intensify a probe into the manipulation of electricity accounts.
The Independent Citizen Movement (ICM) filed the motion to remove the mayor. The African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) seconded the motion.
The party requested the speaker to, upon adoption of the item, convene an extraordinary council meeting within seven days to elect a new mayor.
The motion had not gone through the council’s programming committee by March 11, so it is unclear if it will be among the items to be tabled in this month’s council meeting on March 27.
