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4 hours ago
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ActionSA says it won't invite 'unnecessary instability' to Tshwane Municipality with regards to ANC's bid to remove city manager
JOHANNESBURG - ActionSA said it won't invite "unnecessary instability" to the Tshwane Municipality when asked if it will support the African National Congress's (ANC) push to remove the city manager. The ANC in Tshwane has launched a public campaign to remove Johan Mettler, claiming there were discrepancies with his appointment as city manager. ActionSA held a media briefing on Tuesday on its ongoing participation within the ANC-led multiparty coalition government in Tshwane. ActionSA member and Tshwane mayor, Nasiphi Moya, said the city was engaging the provincial and national COGTA departments around the possible "non-compliance" of the city's senior managers. "This issue of non-compliance we're talking about for these section 56 managers, it's an issue of the constitution of the panel. The regulation says you must have one councillor (on the panel) but in all these interviews, and I'm talking about interviews that happened in 2022/2023, there were two councillors that were part of the panel." ActionSA national chairperson, Michael Beaumont, said the party believed in the separation between political and administrative issues in government. "As a party, we have ventilated our issue on the matter. It is a matter, and particularly in light of our view that we should not invite unnecessary instability in a city that's starting to move forward for the first time in a long time."
Eyewitness News
03-07-2025
- Politics
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Tshwane city manager willing to comply with investigations amid reports he may have been appointed irregularly
JOHANNESBURG - Tshwane City Manager Johan Mettler says he is willing to fully comply with any investigations amid reports he may have been appointed irregularly. Cooperative Governance MEC Jacob Mamabolo recently wrote to the capital, flagging some irregularities around the appointments of some of its senior managers. At a media briefing in Pretoria on Thursday, Mettler addressed some of the speculation Section 56 managers are senior employees whose appointments have to be approved by the council. Mettler's appointment was approved by the Tshwane council in July 2022, when the Democratic Alliance-led coalition was still in the majority. The appointments of Mettler and six other section 56 managers hired during the DA-led coalition era are now facing scrutiny. Mettler said that from his point of view, he was appointed through a public and transparent process. "How the city employed me is for the city to answer and anything that would have happened in the past must be investigated, and I would welcome any investigation; I will give my full co-operation with any investigation." The DA in Tshwane has accused the African National Congress-led coalition government of trying to replace the section 56 managers with "cadre deployments".
