The DA suffered yet another blow when its speaker in the City of Johannesburg, Vasco da Gama, was ousted through a motion of no confidence in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Having refused to recuse himself from the debate, Da Gama had to read out the results himself. After making the announcement, councillors sitting in the opposition benches immediately got up shouting and screaming for joy.
In a shocking turn of events during the meeting the ACDP, a coalition partner of the multi-party government, used its three seats in council to support the motion.
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