By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
ActionSA has accused the ANC/EFF alliance in Johannesburg of deliberately blocking its motion of no confidence in mayor Thapelo Amad after failing to attend the programming committee meeting to schedule the council agenda.
Tuesday’s meeting was supposed to discuss a motion of no confidence against Mayor Thapelo Amad.
Amad was elected as mayor earlier this year after the ousting of Mpho Phalatse through a motion of no confidence.
“The ANC-EFF coalition of doom deliberately collapsed a City of Johannesburg Council programming committee meeting this morning where ActionSA’s motion of no confidence (MONC) in Mayor Thapelo Amad was set to be tabled when they failed to attend the meeting,” said ActionSA’s Gauteng leader Funzi Ngobeni.
“As such, Action SA will seek legal recourse to ensure that the city is not stolen and that the will of the Johannesburg people prevails.”
Ngobeni says the move is an attempt by the ANC-EFF coalition to cling onto power.
“The move is another desperate attempt by the ANC-EFF coalition of doom to cling to power as they know they do not have the numbers to defeat the MONC in their mayor Amad in council. They know that they have embarrassed the residents of Johannesburg by electing mayor Amad, and are now attempting to protect themselves from embarrassment by facing a MONC.
“Amad has failed to implement the city’s policies such as the informal trading policy while service delivery continued to decline. Amad’s EFF-ANC coalition also voted against an ActionSA motion to remove bucket toilets in the city, leaving our most marginalised residents worse off.”
Ngobeni said ActionSA’s no-confidence motion will have to be tabled at a later stage.
“That meeting has been postponed until a later date. I think what they (ANC-EFF) are trying to do is delay the inevitable. Thapelo Amad as the mayor has failed and he has to go.”