Mayor Xhakaza removed his MMC for Finance on the same day the ANC recalled their Mayor of eThekwini Mxolisi Kaunda
Mayor Xhakaza removed his MMC for Finance on the same day the ANC recalled its mayor of eThekwini, Mxolisi Kaunda.Financial problems within Johannesburg’s East Rand municipality has cost Nkululeko Dunga his job.
Ekurhuleni mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza has announced that he would be removing the MMC for Finance, citing unforeseen misalignments.More above-inflation increases for municipal services in SA will hit on 1 July Incumbent MMC for City Planning and Economic Development Nomadlozi Nkozi will take over in the interim. She is also the Chairperson of both the Governance and Economic Mayoral Cluster and the Budget Steering Committee.Additionally, he noted the municipality’s poor financial position had been a cause for concern for some time, and that opportunities to rectify the situation had been wasted.
“We firmly believe that every member of the mayoral committee must be committed to a co-ordinated way of governance, under the guidance of the executive mayor, including accountability, which was not the case,” stated Dlabathi.Elsewhere, the shifting political sands appear to have swallowed the first local victim.
Mayor of eThekwini Mxolisi Kaunda was recalled by the ANC on Wednesday, but looks set to be redeployed to the National Council of Provinces.ActionSA, who will have six seats in the seventh parliament, took Kaunda’s removal as a signal of ANC and DA collusion.The seventh parliament will hold its first sitting on Friday, 14 June, to elect the speaker, deputy speaker and president.
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