Embattled mayor turns to court
Fighting to save her job, Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Eugene Johnson has turned to the courts in the hope of halting a council meeting that seeks to oust her.
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Fighting to save her job, Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Eugene Johnson has turned to the courts in the hope of halting a council meeting that seeks to oust her.
The fate of the ANC-led coalition is on a knife-edge in Nelson Mandela Bay after it was finally agreed at another chaotic council meeting on Tuesday that Eugene Johnson’s future as mayor will be decided next week.
The three Northern Alliance councillors involved in bitter battles for control of the party have been granted a court order to attend Tuesday’s council meeting.
Northern Alliance president Gary van Niekerk and two other members have been kicked out of the party again by the same faction that lost a court battle after they tried to oust the three men earlier in 2022.
With each mayoral committee member having declared themselves ‘mayor’, the Nelson Mandela Bay metro was plunged into what the MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Xolile Nqatha, described as ‘lawlessness and chaos’ in the ANC-led coalition government.