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Meet all the mayor’s men and the one woman in charge of trying to turn Nelson Mandela Bay around.

The DA’s Alex Christians and COPE’s Colleen Makhubele are the two candidates who have been nominated for the City of Joburg's speaker position.

Cope member of council and City of Joburg chair of chairs Colleen Makhubele has been elected as the new speaker of the metro.

A total of 270 councillors have gathered at the City of Joburg special council sitting in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, to elect a new speaker.

With just 90 minutes of shut-eye, Retief Odendaal was in the mayor’s chair by 9am on Thursday after a marathon council meeting that ended in the early hours of the morning.

As the DA and its partners celebrate ousting the ANC-led coalition in Nelson Mandela Bay, concerns have been raised about the Eastern Cape government pulling the rug from under their feet and implementing section 12 of the Municipal Structures Act.

The DA's Retief Odendaal has been elected as the new mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay after the ANC's Eugene Johnson was voted out on Wednesday.

Discord, disorder and a brawl over a ballot box — amid this high drama, mayor Eugene Johnson was booted out of office on Wednesday ten months into the job.

Do multiparty coalitions work?

With pandemonium breaking out at a council meeting on Wednesday, mayor Eugene Johnson was removed from the top post.