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If you’re the kind of person who likes to settle your disputes by hurling chairs and howling at the roof, then the Ekurhuleni City Council is the place to be this election year.
Never mind that you likely failed Grade 12 and still struggle to tie your shoelaces, all that matters in council chambers is how loud you can be as you attempt to brain your colleagues with a chair. F*** the electorate who entrusted you with their city, this is Sparta (Gauteng), and someone is getting moered.
Not funny is it? Well, neither is councillors throwing objects, ‘howling’ and ‘stealing the mayor’s phone’ at the chaotic Ekurhuleni council meeting this week.
Chaos erupted on Thursday night as EFF members caused trouble and had to be physically removed during a sitting that included a motion of no-confidence tabled against Mayor Sivuyile Ngondwana.
Council members were seen throwing paper and small objects around the chamber and lifting their chairs as though to use them as weapons. It even appeared that a councillor stole the mayor’s phone during the chaos.
Ironically, and perhaps moronically, the motion that set the barny off was an accusation against Ngondwana and his mayoral committee for poor performance.
MMC for Finance Nkululeko Dunga was among those forcibly removed by Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department (EMPD) officials.
“It is a question of extreme disappointment at the attitude of councillors,” Dunga said outside the council buildings. “We were not given opportunities to raise any points of orders that are legitimate by nature”, the MMC said.
“And when they are accepted or taken into consideration, there is a lot of howling from the opposition benches, inclusive of the ANC themselves, who obviously came into this meeting with the predetermined outcome that they would be willing to support and vote with the Rupert establishment of the DA and the politically-bankrupt ActionSA, who collapsed the city of Tshwane, by the way.”
Rupert establishment of the DA nogal. Not being given the opportunity to raise any points seemingly justifies unleashing the Gangs of Gauteng-type violence.
ActionSA’s motion of no confidence follows the absence of the auditor-general’s report into the city’s finances, with council members accusing the mayor and Dunga of hiding the report. However, the motion may come unstuck as, according to Ekurhuleni, the report has not been released yet.
Aside from financial woes, an extreme lack of service delivery has also been pointed out as a reason for the lack of faith in the mayor and his MMCs.
“What is happening is that some of the contracts, particularly waste collection is coming to an end in June 2024,” Dunga said.
“These are contracts that existed prior to EFF governance, and prior to that, even the racist DA. These are cadres of the ANC who obviously want to regain control in terms of the allocation of tenders and the influencing thereof.”
He said the EFF had been able to create internal control systems that could reject any corrupt relationships that might exist in the area of supply chain management.
“These people… they are the instigators of non-service delivery in the City of Ekurhuleni.”
Behold our public representatives running a council meeting:
What a bunch of losers. Too bad the only people losing is the citizens of Ekurhuleni. We would say “Shame on you” but these okes have none.
[source:citizen]
