Mandela Bay coalition on tenterhooks as DA refuses to accede to UDM demands
Bantu Holomisa is holding the “co-government agreement to ransom” with his ultimatum that former Nelson Mandela Bay deputy mayor Mongameli Bobani be reinstated by Monday, says DA leader Mmusi Maimane. The UDM leader wrote to Maimane, FF-Plus leader Pieter Groenewald, Congress of the People (COPE) leader Mosiuoa Lekota and African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) leader Kenneth Meshoe to demand the reinstatement of Bobani after he was removed in a motion of no confidence, on Thursday. Maimane, however, hit back in an e-mail sent to all the leaders of the coalition, stating that the DA could not tolerate the “kind of unethical behaviour that councillor Bobani has displayed”. He said that Holomisa asked the coalition to maintain the status quo, despite evidence of corruption and Bobani’s “flagrantly voting against the coalition”. The Nelson Mandela Bay coalition administration has been taking strain over the past few months, with tension between Bobani and DA mayor Athol Trollip promp...
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