Moments after Nelson Mandela Bay council speaker Gary van Niekerk was ordered to pay the costs of a court application challenging the validity of a no-confidence motion against mayor Retief Odendaal, some of the parties within the governing coalition were gunning for him to personally foot the bill.
The EFF in Nelson Mandela Bay will file a new motion of no confidence that seeks to remove the city’s coalition government after mayor Retief Odendaal went to court to challenge the validity of an earlier version filed in April.