The Northern Alliance has expelled its national chair, Bevan Brown, and removed him as a PR councillor in the Nelson Mandela Bay council after he broke ranks with the party’s leadership.
Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Retief Odendaal is fighting to retain his position, with his lawyer calling on speaker Gary van Niekerk to halt a council meeting scheduled for Monday, but if it goes ahead the motion to remove him should not be tabled.
Northern Alliance national chair and Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Bevan Brown has openly defied his party’s decision to back an attempt to remove mayor Retief Odendaal.
The first step to try to remove the coalition government that rules Nelson Mandela Bay was made on Wednesday after several parties filed a petition to get rid of the mayor, deputy mayor, speaker and chief whip.