Tshwane mayor Brink to face another motion of no confidence

Tshwane

Tshwane — Tshwane Mayor, Cilliers Brink, has seen his position come under threat from opposition parties, with the African National Congress A(NC) threatening another motion of no confidence against him.

The ANC will table another motion based on poor service delivery, including a failure to spend capital project grants and the exclusion of people who participate in the local economy, IOL reported.

Brink said that he will confidently face the motion of no confidence and show that the current City of Tshwane government is doing things that any other government would do in the same position. He said the government must face such a motion and answer what they have done to improve the situation.

“On our side, it is clear that we made progress on financial sustainability. We have a better audit outcome. The rating agencies have confirmed that we are on the right track. Tshwane Ya Tima is slowly making a difference. We are acting against illegal connections and that really is the basis for improving service delivery,” Brink said.

The Multi-Party Charter (MPC) released a statement and said it remains in firm support of Brink and the Democratic Alliance (DA). The parties said it is against the ANC’s motion of no confidence and emphasised the ANC’s motion was not about service delivery, but rather its business interests in Waste Collection contracts.

“We call upon the Republican Conference Tshwane, Patriotic Alliance, Congress of the People, Pan Africanist Congress of Azania, GOOD, African Transformation Movement, and African Independent Congress to stand against this MONC and not support the ANC to further ANC business interests,” it said.

According to The Citizen, the ANC’s Aaron Maluleka accused Brink and the DA of replacing black officials within his office and replacing them with ex-colleagues.

“The city manager has created an army of his ex-colleagues acting on behalf of Cilliers Brink to cleanse senior managers. The office of Mayor Brink has replaced all black African support staff with white DA members,” he said.

Maluleka said various senior managers were being expelled and some removed for nefarious reasons, including the group head of economic development, executive head, divisional head and a TMPD director.

Maluleka said the group head of roads and transport and the group head of the property department were also targeted.

“The chief of police, Yolanda Faro, is used to purge any TMPD member suspected to be associated with the ANC and the governance support officer, Ashraf Adam, is assigned to remove cluster managers from the city,” he added.

Maluleka said the DA-led coalition owed Eskom R6 billion and serviced the debt at R20m a month, while people of Ikageng in Mamelodi were in the fifth year without water, yet they are billed every month.

“Tshwane Ya Tima is a faux pas that targets already paying customers facing economic difficulties. Their collection rate remains at 40% and the debtor’s book stands at R21 billion,” he said.

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