PARTY DISCIPLINE
Hearings set for EFF conscience voters in Mogale
The EFF councillors in Mogale City voted with the ANC despite a direct order not to attend the council meeting
The EFF councillors who voted in support of an ANC budget in Mogale City face disciplinary hearings this week. It is understood that disciplinary hearings are scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday at the EFF’s headquarters in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. Six of the party’s nine councillors are due to appear at the hearings, after which the harshest sanction for the charges could be expulsion. The EFF councillors in Mogale City voted to pass the budget and the integrated development plan on Tuesday last week even though they were given a direct order not to attend the council meeting. The party wanted the council to be put under administration so that new elections could be called in the dysfunctional municipality. The councillors claimed they had voted according to their conscience, with Smanga Mkhumbeni of the EFF saying that the group could not reject a budget that was seen as benefiting the people. The EFF councillors’ decision to vote with the ANC came as a shock in the municipali...
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