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The SACP Mbuyiselo Ngwenda District in the Eastern Cape calls on the black caucus to rescind the decision taken on the 05 December 2019

Dear MyPE

We have noted with great concern events that are unfolding in NMBM and the counter revolutionary conduct that seeks to render our municipality useless. We have noted, with great concern an overwhelming interest in this municipality which manifest itself through a string of interventions, which can be traced all the way from 2008.

The SACP Mbuyiselo Ngwenda District is concerned that throughout these interventions, the state of the municipality and service delivery is deteriorating every day and corruption is rising at an unprecedented rate. We wish to take the residents of Nelson Mandela through the memory lane in sequence.

The position of Executive Mayor became vacant on 05 December 2019, when majority of Councillors including DA Councillors removed Clr Bobani and resolved that Clr Buyeye a Deputy Executive Mayor take over the Mayoral responsibilities. This resolution rendered the office of the Executive Mayor vacant and therefore invoked the provisions of Section 56(6) of the Structures Act. The DA had a corresponding responsibility to elect an Executive Mayor when it removed Bobani.

We have noted their attempt to seek an asylum after it disorganized the coalition government led by black dominated political parties. The Deputy Executive Mayor, who is now challenged by the DA was given the very same powers by the DA on 05 December 2019. If there is illegality in assumption of these powers, it therefore stands to reason that the decisions of 05 December 2019 were also illegal and must be reviewed and rescinded. In the same meeting of 05 December 2019, council appointed Ms Nqwazi to act for three months. Subsequent to that, on the 28 th March 2020, the council extended the acting role of Ms Nqwazi for further three months. In our view theseappointments are regulated in terms of Section 54 of the Systems Act. While we reserve our comments on legality aspects of these acting appointments, they expired by effluxion of term at the end of three months.

The DA’s assertion which suggest that the Deputy Executive Mayor that assumed Executive Mayor’s responsibilities did not have powers to appoint acting CM would obviously not have powers to extend ACM’s contract that expired by effluxion of time and would have no powers to undermine the provisions of Section 54 of the Systems Act, as amended.

It is visible that the DA’s interest in this municipality is to create havoc and to prove that blacks cannot govern and only the white master understands what the communities of this municipality want, the majority of which are blacks and working class.

When the working class communities were frustrated by the DA led coalition, having had their basic services terminated by the uncaring DA led coalition, the black dominated political parties stood up to unseat the DA. These Comrades who are recklessly labelled by the counter-revolutionary forces were at the centre of this struggle and this project was carried out without fail. We urge our forces not to fall for the confusion caused by the Democratic Alliance. The SACP will guard against this confusion and we know our class enemy. We will not allow the tendencies that are rented by the right-wing forces to destabilize the formidable force of our hard-won gains.

They will be identified and exposed for who they are.

We hate corruption with passion because it deprives the working-class communities the services they desperately need, and it perpetuate poverty, unemployment and inequality. We call upon the upper spheres of government to give this municipality space to govern its own affairs.

We, further note, with disappointment, statements that are issued by the Province of the ANC, in response to letters from the DA, an opposition party. We feel that, those statements are inappropriate because the ANC is in alliance with the SACP and COSATU and as alliance components were not consulted before the statements that are in the public domain about this metro are issued.Throughout the week of 06 June 2020, the ACM was on sick leave and therefore the SACP Mbuyiselo Ngwenda District supports any candidate appointed to act in the position of CM, if candidate has the requisite skills. SACP, demands that the Mettler case be finalized as soon as possible, and that rate payers’ monies not be wasted on settlement of officials that are charged for corruption.

Regards

Cde Lunga Nombexeza
District Secretary SACP

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