THE DA is calling on the chairman of the Municipal Demarcation Board Thabo Manyoni resign and vacate his post with immediate effect.
In a statement, DA national spokesperson Cilliers Brink said Manyoni had been actively campaigning to become the ANC’s Free State chairperson, an undertaking which he says violates the impartiality of the MDB.
Manyoni claims the ‘regulations are silent’ on his ongoing political campaign to be the ANC’s Free State Chairperson.
Cilliers Brink, DA Shadow Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, says Section 3 of the Local Government: Municipal Demarcation Act, establishes the independence of the MDB and mandates the organization to be impartial.
“With his background as a former high ranking political figure in the ANC, Manyoni should never have been appointed as Chairman of the MDB. His appointment exposes a serious flaw in the Act, which enables cadre deployment to be effected by the appointing authority
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