The ANC Greater Tshwane executive committee announced during a media briefing on Friday that it wants incumbent City of Tshwane Mayor Cilliers Brink to resign with immediate effect, failing which it will table a motion of no confidence in him in the City of Tshwane and get him removed as Tshwane’s first citizen.
The ANC said it is confident of carrying out such a motion even if it doesn’t have the majority of Councilors in the chambers of the Metro.
ANC Tshwane chairperson Bones Modise pointed out that even without the majority, the ANC has in the past managed to put in place its own mayoral candidate at the helm of the City of Tshwane in the form of the late Dr Murunwa Makwarela.
This after members of the DA and ActionSA sabotaged the DA/ActionSA alliance and voted for an ANC candidate Makwarela, instead of voting for DA/ActionSA alliance preferred candidate Cilliers Brink in 2022.
The ANC is of the view that Brink is corrupt and incompetent.
The ANC indicated that it had all along been observing Brink’s incompetence, but things came to a head when he cancelled the contracts of various waste management companies this week, on the basis that their vehicles are incapacitated to carry out the work of removing waste in townships like Mamelodi.
This development led to the ANC raising past issues which have been dormant for some time now.
The ANC pointed out that the specifications introduced by Mayor Brink for vehicles used by waste collectors are unfair as they discriminate against black township entrepreneurs who don’t have funds to buy new trucks as demanded by Brink because most of them are subcontractors who don’t get paid on time by the main contractors and can therefore not get funds to purchase new vehicles, because their relationships with banks is not in good standing.
ANC Tshwane Secretary General George Matjila unashamedly expressed the party’s support for township waste management companies and pointed out that it is wrong to call them names like “criminals” and “construction mafias.”
ANC Tshwane chairperson Modise said they were depending on the votes of some members of ActionSA as such members are angry about the fact that the DA at national level “dumped” the so-called Moonshot pact and joined forces with the ANC.
Some of the points highlighted by the ANC in its media statement on Friday, which it says are reasons for the immediate removal of Brink as mayor are as follows:
1.The City of Tshwane has no funds for Capital Expenditure and relies on the R2,5 billion grant from the national government as its capital budget
2.Underspending in that it only spent R1 billion of the R2,5 billion it received from national government, leading to 150 projects being halted in the townships of Tshwane
3.Collapsing service delivery as robots and streets have not been fixed; lack of contract management systems; waste not being collected for months on end due to failure or irregular payment to service providers; water not being provided to several residents in Hammanskraal, Mamelodi, Winterveldt, and several projects being stopped in area inhabited by Africans, Indians and Coloureds.
4. Inconsistent revenue collection strategy in the form of Tshwane Ya Tima initiative.
5.Auditor General’s adverse report.
6. Bloated staff component in the City Manager’s office by creating three more positions therein which cost R3 billion a year instead of addressing existing poor administration in that office.
The ANC says it will ask the City if Tshwane Speaker Mncedi Ndzwanana to table the motion at his mist convenient time and in terms of the Municipal Structures Act of 2003, sub-section 58.
The following attachment ANC statemnt: