In papers before the high court in Pretoria in response to the DA's urgent court application, Makhura argued that the DA was missing the point.
"The DA's excuses miss the point. The decision was not punishment, nor was it aimed exclusively at members of the DA. It was the provincial executive's response - required by the constitution - to chronic, deep-seated and plainly irreversible inability or unwillingness to perform executive obligations by the council.""All councillors have lost their positions, including the ANC and EFF councillors. The provincial executive has not appropriated the power for itself.
In the DA's replying papers, the party's mayoral candidate in Tshwane, Randall Williams, argued that the metro didn't have any executive failures which would ordinarily lead to an intervention by the provincial government. Williams accused Makhura and the provincial executive of being so keen to put the metro under administration and dissolve its council to the extent that a"shotgun" approach was adopted where a series of issues at the municipality were listed with the provincial government hoping"that one or more of those issues would somehow constitute a failure to meet an executive obligation in terms of the legislation or the constitution".
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