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‘Interference’ from DA leaders led to former Joburg mayor Mpho Phalatse not doing her work

  • Dr Mpho Phalatse was recently ousted as the Joburg Mayor.
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ActionSA caucus leader in the City of Johannesburg Council, Funzi Ngobeni has praised former mayor  Dr Mpho Phalatse’s leadership skills.

He has, however, admitted that Phalatse found it difficult to carry her responsibilities because of what he calls “interference” by Democratic Alliance national leaders who had vested interests in the city.

Ngobeni says he hopes that some of the projects that were initiated under the coalition will be implemented, as the approved budget catered for them.

The party briefed the media in Johannesburg following the ousting of Dr Phalatse.

“We were making progress in terms of getting service delivery around this coordination working. And I think it’s at this moment for us as ActionSA that we salute her and thank her for the corporation that she has made. We know it was not easy, in her party, people were opposing her for working with us.”

Mpho Phalatse removed as Mayor of Johannesburg

The African National Congress has welcomed the recent developments in the City of Johannesburg that saw the ousting of Dr Mpho Phalatse as Mayor and the subsequent voting in of Dada Morero.

This comes after the City convened a special sitting that tabled a motion of no confidence in Phalatse that saw a total of 139 votes pass the motion.

An urgent application to interdict the sitting was struck off the roll in the Gauteng High Court.

Speaking at Luthuli House after the revelations, ANC Spokesperson Pule Mabe says that the party welcomed the developments, adding that the DA did not win the power to govern in the City.

Mabe says “We knew, I mean look, if you think of it the ANC is the only party that has never gone to court to stop any of these ‘wannabes’ from governing. We have never done that. We have never done that. We lose Nelson Mandela Bay, the secretary of Nelson Mandela Bay is then found welcoming the outcomes of what would have happened in that metro. That is the ANC. We allowed the DA to occupy the seat of government here in the city, but we kept on reminding them, we whispered to them that don’t forget you did not win the power to govern. You are governing by permission.”

New Johannesburg Mayor, Dada Morero, has committed the ANC to promote the interests of the communities which it serves, starting with the energy crisis crippling South Africa’s economic powerhouse.

Morero, who replaced Phalatse, wants to implement an energy mix strategy that will deal with rolling blackouts. At the same time, ActionSA has hit out at the DA, accusing it of treating other coalition parties with arrogance.

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