By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
The African National Congress (ANC) in Ekurhuleni has on Thursday submitted a motion of no confidence in Mayor Tania Campbell.
Ekurhuleni Speaker Raymond Dlamini confirmed receiving the motion from the ANC on Thursday.
However, he said that it still needed to go through the programming committee before it was put up for a vote in the council.
“There’s a lot of things that you have to look at. You have to check if they comply.”
The ANC has requested the vote against Campbell to take place 26 October.
ANC has complained about Campbell’s handling of electricity tariff hike protests. Four people were killed and municipality infrastructure was damaged when protests broke out in Tembisa early in August over high municipal rates, power cuts, and poor service delivery.
Campbell has so far said she remains undeterred by rumours of her ousting as the ANC intensifies its campaign to regain the metros it lost in the 2021 local government elections.
In September, the ANC regained control of City of Johannesburg after former mayor Mpho Phalatse was ousted through a motion of no confidence convened by the city council. The motion against the embattled former mayor passed by 139 votes and ANC’s Dada Morero emerged as the city’s new mayor.
Phalatse, who has since been contesting the council sitting, is unhappy about her removal and maintains that she is still the mayor of Johannesburg until the courts rule otherwise.
She wants the court to declare the sitting invalid and unlawful, and the matter will be heard at the high court in Johannesburg on October 18.