News24 reports that the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has confirmed it has received Zandile Gumede's resignation as eThekwini mayor, along with the rest of the ANC executive members in the eThekwini and Msunduzi councils.  

ANC provincial spokesperson Ricardo Mthembu confirmed that Gumede and other senior members had now stepped aside formally.  This came after the party made sweeping leadership changes to the executives in those councils earlier this month following a special provincial executive committee (PEC) meeting on the future of the two municipalities.  Acting eThekwini mayor Fawzia Peer will continue to act in the position until mayor-elect Mxolisi Kaunda, the current transport MEC in the province, is sworn and voted in by the council.  Gumede was suspended and subsequently fired from her position following a two-day special meeting of the ANC's PEC, which enacted the recommendations of the provincial working committee (PWC) that she be recalled.  Gumede was initially placed on special leave after she was arrested on corruption charges related to a Durban Solid Waste tender.  She is currently out on R50,000 bail.

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