DA’s Athol Trollip remains upbeat on surviving EFF motion
The EFF, ANC and UDM to gun for Trollip in Nelson Mandela Bay no-confidence vote
Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip will face an EFF-sponsored motion of no confidence for the second time in as many weeks on Tuesday. The metro council meeting on March 29 descended into chaos before the motion was even debated after Trollip and the DA succeeded in consolidating enough support to keep the mayor from being axed. The meeting was adjourned by council speaker Jonathan Lawack and was postponed to this Tuesday. Last-minute manoeuvring led to the Patriotic Alliance and the African Independent Congress lending support to the coalition council of the DA, the Congress of the People and the African Christian Democratic Party, giving Trollip the 61 seats in council he needed to survive. If the balance of forces do not change dramatically, Trollip will survive the motion on Tuesday. The EFF tabled a motion of no confidence in the mayor’s leadership, saying it wanted to punish the DA for not supporting the call for land expropriation without compensation. The EFF, the ANC an...
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