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The district attorney has committed to ensuring that the Gauteng MEC Lebogang Maile cooperative government is personally liable for the legal costs of the Supreme Court of Appeal case in which the appointment of administrators in Tshwane was declared invalid and voided.
The SCA in Bloemfontein handed down a ruling Tuesday that will see the council reinstated in the city of Tshwane after Maile put the metro under administration in April.
Gauteng District Attorney Leader Mike Moriarty said: “The district attorney will ensure that Maile is held personally liable for all legal costs, wasting taxpayers’ money and the dangerous state of chaos and mismanagement in the one that is the city of Tshwane today due to its illegal actions and the incompetence of the administrators that it imposed on the City during all these months. “
Moriarty has described Maile’s move as “a politically motivated takeover.”
“There was no justification for removing the elected councilors of the Office of the Prosecutor from office,” Moriarty said.
Maile had appealed a Pretoria superior court decision that ruled in favor of the district attorney after he challenged Maile’s decision.
Tshwane had been unable to hold council meetings to appoint a mayor following Stevens Mokgalapa’s resignation, pass a tight budget, or adopt other resolutions when his meetings failed to meet quotas or had to be abandoned following strikes by EFF councilors. and the ANC.
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