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The removal of five municipal mayors by the Interim Provincial Committee (IPC) of the ANC Noroeste has been welcomed by some within the party, while others have interpreted it as a decision influenced by factionalism.
On Friday, the mayors, speakers and heads of the local municipalities of Mahikeng, Ditsobotla, Maquassi Hills and Matlosana, as well as Dr. Ruth Segomotsi Mompati, were removed from their positions.
But some felt strongly that the five mayors were acted upon while the “big shots” whose municipalities were the worst were left intact.
The ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) in the province said it had already told its members who were removed to challenge the decision and stay put.
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Bitsa Lenkopane, the acting provincial secretary of the women’s league, said the IPC’s decision was “just a matter of factions that has nothing to do with the performances of those people.”
He doesn’t just wake up and make the decision to dismiss people, even those in command of municipalities that are under section 139 administration.
Lenkopane
However, the IPC coordinator, Hlomane Chauke, said that the removal of the five mayors was “only the beginning”. He described the measure as “the first round” when the media asked him why he acted in the five municipalities and not in others with even bigger scandals and worse financial audit results.
The local municipalities of Rustenburg and Madibeng, as well as the district municipality of Ngaka Modiri Molema, were expected to be on Chauke’s list.
Chauke announced the IPC’s decision on Friday, which he said was made after a “rigorous evaluation” of the municipalities in which they ran.
“The inability of the municipal leadership to provide the necessary oversight has resulted in the collapse of the municipal administration. Even more worrisome for the IPC is the inability of these municipalities to fulfill their constitutional mandate and provide the services that our communities so badly need, ”said Chauke.
“While the IPC, in accordance with the ANC constitution, has done everything possible to guide and reign its deployments, some of these councilors have remained defiant and uncooperative. Normally, the IPC would not have preferred to withdraw these deployments given the reality that local government elections will take place next year … however, we can no longer overcome the growing impatience of our communities with our public representatives. “
Chauke said the IPC hoped his decision would be well received by all party members.
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“As we make these changes, the ANC will require the utmost unity among all its members, supporters, and society. The IPC expects ANC members to close ranks and build a well-oiled machinery capable of uniting the people of the province and the broadest range of all sectors of society to accelerate service delivery, ”he said.
However, Lenkopane said they made it clear at IPC meetings that they did not support the decision to remove the officials.
That is not going to happen … they have no reasons.
Lenkopane
“You don’t just wake up and make the decision to dismiss people, even those who are in command of the municipalities that are under the administration of section 139. The five municipalities in this case are under administration and those that are removed As well as municipal administrators, they do not have powers over municipal business, but have nevertheless been evaluated … how do you expect them to fix things when they have no power under the administration? ” she said.
“They [IPC] I have no reason to eliminate these people. The other thing is that they [IPC] they are interfering too much in the administration and the affairs of the municipalities ”.
Lenkopane said there were municipalities with worse audit results and scandals, citing the Ngaka Modiri Molema district municipality and its dubious Covid-19 coronavirus-related spending of R93 million that has been under the focus of the provincial legislature.
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She said the decision to remove mayors and others was unfair to them and said the women’s league had already sought an audience with national leaders of the ruling party to express their discontent and overturn the decision.
“That is not going to happen… they have no reasons. We have requested a meeting with the officials of the national executive committee and we will tell them that we have told our people to challenge the IPC’s decision, ”he said.
Meanwhile, Cosatu in the northwest has welcomed the decision to make some deployment changes by the ANC as “a long time ago some of these municipalities were on the brink of collapse and there was no provision of services to the communities to the ones that were supposed to serve. ”.
“We have also noticed that fellow councils are concerned about their factional political program rather than doing the job they are deployed for and in the process suffering communities. Most of the municipalities in the province did not fulfill their functions due to poor leadership and this led to adverse audit results by the Auditor General, ”said Cosatu Provincial Secretary Kopano Konopi.
But the union federation had some reservations that the successors would be decided next week.
“While Cosatu welcomes this decision, we hope that the ANC IPC will rise above the petty interests of the factions when they reassign new comrades to these positions that are now vacant,” Konopi said.
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