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News24 reports that Johannesburg is no closer to having a permanent city manager after the applicable agenda item was withdrawn from a protracted council meeting on Tuesday.
The urgent matter was brought to the council under the agenda item ‘Progress to Date on the Process to Recruit the City Manager’. But, the document containing all the details was not part of the agenda package and was only given to councillors on Tuesday evening in a behind-closed-doors meeting. Without giving a reason, a councillor asked Speaker Margaret Arnolds to hold discussion on the item confidentially in the council, and she agreed. All witnesses were removed from the gallery, and all cameras were turned off.
The outcome, apparently, was that parties within the leading coalition between the ANC, EFF, PA and other minority parties could not come to an understanding. They clashed over the report having been introduced at the last minute, leading to claims of agreed protocols having been bypassed. Eventually, at around 19:30, the item was withdrawn. The City has been without a city manager since Floyd Brink left office on 14 December. In July, the Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC, Jacob Mamabolo, appointed Kiba Kekana as the acting city manager. The position is of importance because the City has no access to funding from banks without an accounting officer.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Alex Patrick at News24 (subscription / trial registration required)
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