New Age2.png Mpumalanga: COSATU, SACP unhappy about removal of four mayors "No consultation" Masoka Dube, The New Age, Johannesburg, 30 July 2015 COSATU and the SACP in Mpumalanga have accused the ANC of disrespecting the tripartite alliance by dismissing four municipal mayors without informing the alliance partners. The ANC released a statement on Tuesday confirming Salome Sithole (Emalahleni mayor), Caroline Morajane (Lekwa in Standerton), Tiny Mthimunye (Dr JS Moroka in Siyabuswa) and Bafana Ncongwane (Thaba Chweu in Lydenburg) had been recalled. Their replacements are Lindiwe Nthsalintshali (Emalahleni) Linda Dlamini (Lekwa), Rhoda Mathabe (Dr JS Moroka) and Selina Mathabe (Thaba Chweu). Lindiwe Ntshalintshali.jpg COSATU provincial spokesperson Fidel Mlombo said: "We heard the news on social media. We have not been contacted officially by the ruling party regarding the decision to reshuffle the local government structures. This is not the first time the ruling party takes serious decisions without consulting the alliance partners. "We are not happy as the alliance. We are going to try to open communication channels to get reasons on why this only happened now when we are a few months to the local government elections. There are worse-performing municipalities, so we need to know why they only fired the mayors from the four municipalities." SACP provincial spokesperson Bonakele Majuba said: "The decision of recalling the mayors was made without consulting us. We were there when they appointed the mayors but now we heard on the news that they have been removed." When asked why the tripartite alliance was not consulted concerning the removal of the mayors, ANC provincial spokesperson Sibusiso Themba said: "For now I cannot comment on the issue of consultation, I will interact with my seniors first and come back to you. However, I can confirm that we have recalled the mayors because their municipalities are not performing well. This is in the line with preparations for the local government elections." Mpumalanga-based independent political analyst Gakwi Mashego has welcomed the dismissal of the mayors but has said the timing was wrong. "I would like to believe that the action is being guided by a need to improve service delivery in the municipalities. However, the contest playing itself out with the impending provincial conference cannot be separated from it," Mashego said. "There are worse-performing municipalities such as Bushbuckridge municipality, where service delivery regularly breaks down, but we hardly see such actions being taken." The DA in the province said in a statement: "Now is the time for competent and skilled mayors to be appointed. Replacing an incompetent crony with another will not improve service delivery." <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] From: <http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/30072015/epaperpdf/23.pdf> http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/30072015/epaperpdf/23.pdf -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
