The city council said it could not extend the contract of Imogen Mashazi, who is reaching retirement age, by two years
The Economic Freedom Fights won’t back a motion to remove Nkosindiphile Xhakaza, despite acknowledging the same concerns raised by opposition parties about his leadership
This move is in line with the Economic Freedom Fighters’
plan to survive beyond the 2026 local government election
They criticised the Gauteng premier’s water and electricity solutions as misguided
The Red Berets have leveraged their relationship with Premier Panyaza Lesufi to maintain their influence in the province
Three groups emerged: those who negotiated quietly to set up the GNU; loyalists in the DA, ANC, EFF and MK party and the rogues in and out of trouble with the law
ActionSA is set to get the council speaker position and chair of chairs in the new coalition arrangement
Mashaba’s party may vote in favour of the loan if the R200 prepaid electricity service charge is scrapped
Despite the ANC, Economic Freedom Fighters and the minority parties being in government together in the city, the Red Berets voted against a R2.5 billion loan proposed by the coalition
But there is solace in the fact that the Economic Freedom Fighters and the uMkhonto weSizwe party are unlikely to ever agree with the Democratic Alliance
But ANC Gauteng spokesperson Lesego Makhubele said the party did not have a resolution in place about ending its relationship with the Economic Freedom Fighters
The initiative was announced in mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza’s maiden state of the city address, in which he also vowed to crack down on crime
Newly elected mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza says there is ‘pressure’ for the ANC to fail the metro ‘as the EFF and DA had done’
But the ANC say it will not allow the EFF to threaten it
An embarrassing nasal malfunction was not all that should cause Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema to lose face
The EFF leader was addressing thousands of party members in Gauteng, where its partnerships with the ANC have come under pressure
The ANC accuses the EFF of trying to govern Ekurhuleni metro, where the two parties are in a coalition, without consultation
The party’s leaders are determined to clinch the top spot in Gauteng for their candidate
EFF plans to take advantage of ANC’s failures in Gauteng to win the province
Illegal land occupation and alleged corruption plague the city’s unstable administrations
Nkululeko Dunga says the party is building an organisation ‘that is going to last long even after we have left this earth’