The DA and its coalition partners, ActionSA and the FF Plus, are considering using polygraph tests to identify eight councillors who voted with the ANC and EFF to ensure the election of Cope member Murunwa Makwarela as Tshwane mayor. | ZintleMahlati
Party leaders from the coalition have told News24 that polygraph testing is one of the leading options under consideration, despite the legal complications that may follow.
Makwarela's election angered the multiparty coalition because ActionSA, the ACDP, the FF Plus and the DA had entered Tuesday's special sitting for the election of a mayor with the view that they were in the majority. Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month. You can cancel anytime and if you cancel within 14 days you won't be billed.
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