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BusinessLive reports that the ANC top brass on Tuesday confirmed that controversial eThekwini metro leader Zandile Gumede had been officially ousted as mayor.
ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte confirmed that Gumede and other senior party members had been removed from the powerful, decision-making executive committee (Exco), but would remain as ordinary councillors. The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal in August asked Gumede to resign. She did so on Monday last week, but later withdrew that resignation letter and sought an audience with party bosses at Luthuli House. Duarte advised that the decision to remove Gumede and the entire ANC Exco was about the generally poor running of the municipality, and was “less about” the criminal charges being faced by the now-ousted mayor. Duarte said: “We’ve agreed not to take disciplinary action against comrade Gumede. What we have done is sit with her and to understand her reasons [for withdrawing her resignation]. She gave us her reasons and we’ve accepted that… The reasons for her and Exco being removed have little to do with her arrest and much more to do with the general assessment of the performance of the municipality. She’s accepted that.”
- Read the full original of the above report by Orrin Singh at BusinessLive
- Read too, ANC upholds decision that Zandile Gumede and others must step down, at News24
- And also, Leadership crisis in eThekwini a concern as sub-committee meetings not held, at Daily News
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