Ekurhuleni mayor Sivuyile Ngodwana voted out by council

Councillors from the ANC and DA abstained from voting in the no-confidence motion.) and the Democratic Alliance abstained, 47 councillors voted in favour for Ngodwana’s ousting. Only 32 councillors rejected his removal.

The Ekurhuleni mayor Sivuyile Ngodwana has been removed by the vote of no confidence during the council meeting held in Germiston on Thursday, 28 March. Those in favor of the motion were 47 and those against were 32.

The City of Ekurhuleni has been under the spotlight for all the wrong reasons recently, including poor financial management, not paying service providers and poorly maintained parks and cemeteries.welcomed the outcome of the motion, saying Ngodwana was a “puppet mayor in the midst of a severe financial and service delivery crisis” in Ekurhuleni.

“We appealed to other political parties in Ekurhuleni to put aside their differences and remove what was clearly a poorly conceived compromise government between the ANC and EFF. “Ngodwana will be remembered as the minority puppet mayor in Ekurhuleni who failed to hold his EFF MMC’s to account, especially his finance MMC, Nkululeko Dunga, whose reign of terror over the finance department in Ekurhuleni left the city on the brink of being placed under administration,” ActionSA Ekurhuleni leader Siyanda Makhubo said in aMakhubo said the focus now was to stabilise the city’s finances and to deliver quality services to Ekurhuleni residents “as soon as possible”.

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