The ANC has reiterated its call for Tshwane Mayor Solly Msimanga to resign, following a qualifications scandal involving the City's chief of staff.
It says that, if this doesn't happen, Msimanga will risk being pushed out by a vote of no confidence.
It was reported last week that former chief of staff Marietha Aucamp was appointed to the position, in which she earned an annual salary of R1.2m, even though she did not have the required qualifications.
Shortly after the news broke, Aucamp was placed on special leave and an investigation was instituted to probe her appointment and the qualifications listed on her assessment form for the position.
Aucamp then resigned at the behest of Msimanga on Thursday. The mayor said that revelations and prima facie evidence had come to the fore, leaving him with no option but to ask Aucamp to resign.
The ANC's Tshwane caucus spokesperson, Lesego Makhubela, on Tuesday called on Msimanga and MMC Celliers Brink to resign immediately, claiming to have evidence that proves both were part of the process of hiring Aucamp.
Makhubela compared Aucamp to former SABC chief operations officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng, who was found to have lied about his qualifications.
"Both of them [Brink and Msimanga] participated in the head hunting of Hlaudi Aucamp to act as chief of staff for three months before she was fully employed after the flouting of processes, which saw Msimanga breaking his oath of office in defence of white supremacy, that seeks to suggest that if you are white you don’t need qualifications to be appointed in a managerial post," said Makhubela in a statement.
He said the ANC was at an advanced stage in preparing to launch mass action to get Msimanga to step down with immediate effect for his role in "corrupt and fraudulent activities relating to employment of his chief of staff, as well as for "running the city into the ground".
"This massive mass action by citizens of Tshwane, lead by the ANC and its structures, will be formally accompanied by a motion of no confidence that will be passed by the ANC in council to save the City of Tshwane from collapsing in the hands of an incapable, incompetent defender of white privilege who dances to the tunes of his bosses from Cape Town." -NEWS24
