Deputy Cooperative Governance Minister Parks Tau says he stands by the Gauteng government’s decision to dissolve the Tshwane Council.
He says the decision was based on the state of the city.
Earlier, the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein confirmed the decision of the High Court in Pretoria that the provincial government’s dissolution of the Tshwane Council was unlawful.
Tau says key to the decision was the fact that there was already a collapse in governance with the council failing to sit for prolonged periods which threatened the passing of the budget.
“Was it important for government to make an intervention as done by the provisional government of Gauteng? In a metropolitan municipality where governance at collapsed? In the capital city of the Republic. Certainly, it was. At least to the extent that the Minister applies their mind to the issue at hand and making decisions on the issues at hand the Minister applied her mind and was objective in applying her mind,” says Tau.
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Election of new Tshwane mayor
Meanwhile, the City of Tshwane is expected to elect a new mayor on Friday when the council will hold its first meeting in several months.
Speaker of the Council, Katlego Mathebe, says a new Mayor will be elected during the meeting but adds that she does not know if some of the other parties will nominate candidates.
“The only time I will know of the candidate for the Executive Mayor is in council, because in terms of the process, the nominations only happen in the council meeting. So, up until the time of the council, I will not know who are the other candidates,” says Mathebe.
Mathebe says there will be a hand over from the administrators to the new team once an Executive Mayor has been elected.
City of Tshwane will have a newly elected Mayor this coming Friday:
