DA turns to court over city manager’s suspension and ‘rigged votes’
Call for a fresh council meeting Brink said, alternatively, the DA would like the court to order a new meeting and to instruct the speaker not to rig the votes.
DA’s Tshwane mayoral candidate Cilliers Brink said 95 councillors present voted against the suspension, while 92 voted in favour of the suspension before council speaker Mncedi Ndzwanana deducted 13 votes.
The DA filed an urgent application in the High Court in Pretoria yesterday to have the Tshwane special council meeting, in which city manager Johann Mettler was suspended, set aside and give effect to the actual votes of the councillors.
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