JOBURG Mayor Mpho Phalatse can sleep well at night as her position in office is guaranteed, as long as the ANC is not playing ball with the EFF.
The red beret leader Julius Malema, in a television interview on Thursday, November 10, vowed that his party will defend Phalatse’s position if the ANC continues to refuse to give the EFF Ekurhuleni to govern.
“There’s no motion of no confidence that is going to be supported by the EFF in Joburg,” said Malema.
He said his party today was supposed to put a name of chairperson’s committee in Joburg council, but it’s going to withdraw that because there was no clear agreement with the ANC.
However, Malema said the door was still opened for the governing party.
Malema revealed that there were talks between his party and the ANC at national and provincial level, and an agreement was reached the night before the Ekurhuleni council sitting on Tuesday, 8 November that the EFF will take control of Ekurhuleni. But to their surprise, former mayor Mzwandile Masina, who is chairman of the region of the ANC, nominated a candidate from his party.
This, he said, put the cat among the pigeons because the ANC with the support of other smaller parties it had agreements with was going to have the edge over the DA.
The EFF then voted with the DA to spite the ANC and handed the mayorship back to DA’s Tania Campbell.
Malema blamed Masina for the chaos, saying he had a bruised ego and acted against the wishes of his party.
Phalatse was reinstated after a court ruling that found her ousting through a motion of no confidence unlawful.
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Another motion of no confidence against her was later removed after threats by DA lawyers that it would be interdicted as it had not been properly processed.
Now it seems her fate is in the hands of how ANC plays its politics with the EFF.
