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While the court will decide on Friday if a council meeting goes ahead to oust Nelson Mandela Bay’s top political leaders, the Northern Alliance has emerged as the biggest winner in the new coalition negotiations.

Former Northern Alliance Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Bevan Brown is challenging his expulsion in court, demanding that the organisation holds its overdue congress to elect a new leadership.

A parallel structure of the Northern Alliance has suspended the party’s president Gary van Niekerk after a meeting with branches on May 11 deliberated on four transgressions levelled against him.

The Northern Alliance has expelled its national chair, Bevan Brown, and removed him as a PR councillor in the Nelson Mandela Bay council after he broke ranks with the party’s leadership.

Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Retief Odendaal is fighting to retain his position, with his lawyer calling on speaker Gary van Niekerk to halt a council meeting scheduled for Monday, but if it goes ahead the motion to remove him should not be tabled.

Northern Alliance national chair and Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Bevan Brown has openly defied his party’s decision to back an attempt to remove mayor Retief Odendaal.

The first step to try to remove the coalition government that rules Nelson Mandela Bay was made on Wednesday after several parties filed a petition to get rid of the mayor, deputy mayor, speaker and chief whip.

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As factional battles widen rifts within the Northern Alliance, the political party has delayed its national elective conference by six months.

Northern Alliance president Gary van Niekerk has fended off another court application to remove him from his party position, along with three other members.