News24 reports that Floyd Brink was reappointed as Johannesburg's City Manager after a behind-closed-doors council meeting on Wednesday.

This came in the wake of the South Gauteng High Court’s decision on 7 November that declared Brink's appointment in February to have been illegal. On Monday, the High Court denied the City's request for leave to appeal that decision. City spokesperson Virgil James said Brink was reappointed after the council followed due process, which it had failed to do in the first instance. In November, the court had found that the manner in which former Speaker Colleen Makhubele had brought forward the motion to hire Brink had been problematic. On Wednesday, the council voted for a report that would see Brink reappointed because the court case had not been about his ability to do the job, but the way in which he was hired. The council essentially performed the process in a legal manner by tabling it.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Alex Patrick at News24

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