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The Speaker of Council, Cllr Colleen Makhubele, has blocked several critical reports which are essential for financial stability and maintaining strong levels of service delivery in the City of Johannesburg. She has deliberately ignored legitimate requests and bent the Rules of Council to serve the coalition of corruption under the ANC.
The matters requiring Council’s urgent attention include the decision on a loan facility to bring stability to the City’s finances, which have suffered in the short time that the coalition of corruption was illegally in charge, as well as a report which highlights corruption in the City and provides clear action by the Multi-Party Government to deal with this corruption and lastly a report pertaining to the City’s fleet contract which comes to an end this week.
Despite explaining the dire consequences of her refusal, which lacks any substantive grounds, she refused the Executive’s request three times during today’s Council sitting. Some of the catastrophic effects of said decision include a violation of Section 56 of the Municipal Systems Act pertaining to Disciplinary Regulations for Senior Managers, collapse of the City’s overdraft facility which will lead the City into bankruptcy, and strip the City of all its non-specialised fleet across the board – a fleet of 4,000 vehicles that are used for administrative and service delivery functions across the City’s seven Regions.
The urgency has been created because the unlawfully elected government under Cllr Dada Morero failed to deal with these critical issues, and the Speaker failed to incorporate them into the agenda at the Programming Committee on 19 October.
The courts have already ruled twice against Cllr Makhubele’s ill-advised and clumsy attempts to capture the City, and if necessary, we will return to the courts to ensure that the rule of law is upheld, and that the six million residents of Johannesburg are put first. Since our triumphant return to office on Tuesday, we have been working non-stop to restore good governance and uphold high levels of service delivery that all residents deserve.
Media enquiries:
McKinnley Mitchell
Communications and Stakeholder Manager
Office of the MMC for Group Corporate and Shared Services
mckinnleym@joburg.org.za | 078 800 3047
30/10/2022
