The ANC in Gauteng has confirmed that it will field its own candidate for the council vote for the new Johannesburg mayor to replace outgoing incumbent Herman Mashaba in the City of Johannesburg.
“If the EFF does not vote with us on Thursday, we are going to lose the metro,” Moody said.
“There are no negotiations with the EFF. We tried to open up to them but…we are now going to go to in the sitting in good faith and hope that the EFF votes in good faith.” Earlier this year, the EFF said it would cease to vote with the DA and announced that it would field its own candidate following Mashaba’s resignation. Sowetan reported on Wednesday that the EFF has nominated Musa Novela as their candidate.
EFF leader Julius Malema last week complained that the DA had made matters worse by announcing Funzi Ngobeni as its mayoral candidate without consulting them as voting partners. There are 269 seats in the council, with 121 belonging to the ANC while the DA’s coalition has 115 seats. This means the EFF, with its 30 seats, is once again the kingmaker.Should the EFF decide to abstain from the vote, the ANC would win as the DA coalition will not have enough votes to clinch the mayorship.
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