Governing coalition plans to remove COPE Caucus leader Colleen Makhubele as the City of Joburg Chair of Chairs

A SPECIAL council sitting aimed at ousting Mpho Phalatse as Joburg mayor on Tuesday was canceled after the Gauteng Hugh Court ruled that the chair of chairs and Cope caucus leader Colleen Makhubele, was not acting speaker and thus could not call the meeting.

The high court on Monday night declared that the meeting called by Chair of Chairs was invalid and interdicted and ordered Makhubele to pay the costs of the court application.

The court also said Makhubele, who had appointed herself speaker last week, was not the Acting Speaker and had no authority to call the meeting and was therefore interdicted from purporting to be such.

The special sitting was to elect a speaker after Vasco da Gama was ousted at the beginning of the month in a motion of no confidence.

The governing multi-party coalition in the City of Johannesburg said on Tuesday that the ruling is