at a council meeting under way at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre. The motion was filed by councillor Imtiyaz Syed of the Active Citizens Coalition.The ANC managed to retain power in the metro with the help of a coalition of smaller parties after the 2021 local government elections.
These included Philani Mavundla from the Abantu Batho Congress, who became deputy mayor but was removed from this position through an ANC motion at the end of last year.“There are 209 councilors who were present when we opened the process of voting. Those who were in support of the motion is 81. Those who are against is 126. No, no I will explain … it’s 126. Those who abstained is one. The reason why it’s 126 is because in the list we minus the vote of the mayor.
(…in eThekwini mayor…) or (…in the Thekwini mayor…). Agglutination and the prefix system in IsiZulu, throws many people off.