JOB ON THE LINE
Joburg council executive challenges move to fire him
Respected administrator Blake Mosley-Lefatola is the latest senior manager to be asked to justify why he should remain in his position
Another senior City of Johannesburg official’s job is on the line after he was accused of undermining the metro’s coalition-led administration. The ANC says that this latest development amounts to mayor Herman Mashaba wielding the axe against managers appointed when it was running the metro. Blake Mosley-Lefatola, a respected administrator, is the latest senior manager to be asked to justify why he should remain in his position. He is the head of group strategy, policy co-ordination and relations The council recently passed a motion in a closed session to give Mosley-Lefatola notice of its intention to suspend him. He is a former municipal manager of Tshwane and has been a public servant for almost two decades. Mosley-Lefatola was given seven days to provide reasons why he should not be suspended from his position. In a document presented to councillors at a meeting in September, it was alleged that Mosley-Lefatola had attempted to undermine the city’s new leadership. It was also al...
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