DA to file motion of no confidence against Sedibeng Mayor
Fireworks are expected at the next council meeting of the Sedibeng District Municipality on November 27, when the Democratic Alliance is expected to bring a motion of no confidence against the Executive Mayor.
SEDIBENG – The Democratic Alliance (DA) says it will be filing a motion of no confidence against the ANC Executive Mayor of the Sedibeng District Municipality, Cllr Lerato Maloka at the next council meeting.
According to Philip Gomes, the DA’s caucus chair in the Sedibeng District Municiplality, the motion was registered on Monday and will be presented to council on November 27.
Gomes says that the district municipality, which is led by the ANC, has become the “cadre deployment capital” for the ANC over the past five terms.
Gomes says: “75% of the municipal budget is spent on salaries. Mismanagement, misuse of municipal infrastructure and bringing the municipality into disrepute are but a few of the charges laid by the DA against the ANC Mayor.”
Gomes says that the DA in Sedibeng hopes that a change of leadership.
“New leadership will usher in a clean, transparent and accountable government, that is sorely needed in Sedibeng,” Gomes says.
