ADJOURNMENT OF COUNCILS
EFF tight-lipped over boycott of cities’ meetings
The EFF has warned the DA that its behaviour in Nelson Mandela Bay ‘will affect all other municipalities’
EFF councillors did not attend council meetings in Tshwane and Johannesburg on Thursday, while the ANC staged walkouts that forced the adjournment of the scheduled meetings in both councils. It is unclear what the reasoning behind it was, but the development comes after the EFF warned the DA in a strongly worded statement last week that the DA’s behaviour in Nelson Mandela Bay "will affect all other municipalities where they rely on opposition parties in order to govern; in particular in Tshwane and Johannesburg". United Democratic Movement (UDM) leader Bantu Holomisa threatened to leave the coalition if deputy Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Mongameli Bobani, a member of his party, was removed. The EFF appears to sympathise with the UDM. The EFF did not respond to questions about whether its boycott of the meetings had anything to do with recent developments in Nelson Mandela Bay. The EFF is kingmaker in Tshwane and Johannesburg, which are governed by DA-led coalition partnerships. The EF...
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