DA leader Mmusi Maimane took a hard line on Tuesday on the political impasse in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro, saying that process should not be above principle. UDM leader Bantu Holomisa has threatened court action to reinstate former UDM deputy mayor Mongameli Bobani into the position from which he was removed through a motion of no confidence last week. Holomisa had initially threatened that the UDM would leave the Nelson Mandela Bay coalition if Bobani is not reinstated, but the coalition is still standing. If the UDM had left the coalition, the metro would be governed by a hung council, as the DA and its other coalition partners in the metro, COPE, ACDP and the Patriotic Alliance (PA), have 60 seats between them. For a majority government, the council needs 61 seats, which the coalition already had before the PA became an official coalition partner in the metro. Maimane said they had not yet received any court papers, but that the message Holomisa sent in his letters was that it...
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