COPE councillor Murunwa Makwarela has been reinstated as Tshwane executive mayor after city manager Johann Mettler received his certificate of solvency rehabilitation on Thursday.

Mettler subsequently told the Gauteng provincial electoral officer of the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) to “immediately withdraw the declaration of a vacancy” for a COPE proportional representative councillor...

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