BusinessLive reports that the ANC in Tshwane on Thursday morning tabled an urgent motion in the metro council to suspend city manager Moeketsi Mosola with immediate effect.  

At the same time, he was in the Labour Court to interdict the tabling at council of an interim investigation report relating to procurement irregularities.  The ANC’s motion, which according to council rules had to be tabled two hours ahead of the council meeting that started at 10am on Thursday, marked a decisive move away from its stance in the September council meeting, where only the DA and its coalition partners supported suspending Mosola pending the outcome of the investigation.  Mosola filed an urgent application with the court on Wednesday, asking it to interdict both an investigation and any form of a report from being tabled in council when it heard the matter on Thursday.  The investigation into Mosola was in relation to a tender granted to engineering consultants GladAfrica, which would have managed the city’s infrastructure budget.  The investigation was approved by council in September, but Mosola was not suspended pending its outcome, despite mayor Solly Msimanga warning that his presence would be detrimental to the stability of the municipality.

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