Johnathan Paoli
Chairs, water bottles, papers and insults were thrown around as EFF members protested against further consideration of the motion of no confidence in Ekurhuleni Mayor, Sivuyile Ngodwana following an application from ActionSA’s on Thursday at a council meeting.
Tempers flared when Council Speaker Nthabiseng Tshivhenga recognised an ANC councilor to take the podium instead of one from the EFF, during a council meeting.
The motion of no confidence in Ngodwana was applied in the absence of the Auditor-General’s report into the city’s finances, which prompted council members to accuse the Mayor and MMC for finance Nkululeko Dunga of hiding the report.
ActionSA submitted the motion in what it said was an attempt to save the metro and said that it stipulated that since Ngodwana was put in office in March last year, the city’s service delivery and its financials had crumbled.
ActionSA caucus leader, Siyanda Makhubo, said that
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