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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.”