The six councillors who were expelled from the EFF after voting with the ANC to pass the Mogale City municipality budget, have filed an urgent application to have their removal interdicted. The urgent application is set to take place on Wednesday in the High Court in Johannesburg, according to the notice of motion. In the notice of motion, they ask that the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) be interdicted from removing the six councilors as proportional representatives of the municipality. They also ask that the municipality be interdicted from removing their names from the proportional representation list, pending the internal appeal of the outcome of the disciplinary hearings, in which the councillors. The councilors did not oppose the vote that passed the Mogale City budget, following the ANC wresting power away from the coalition-led government, after a motion of no confidence against former DA mayor Michael Holenstein passed. The EFF said in a statement on Sunday its central com...
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