The co-operative governance department is sifting through the objections received on whether the mayoral executive system should be scrapped in Nelson Mandela Bay.
Fighting to save her job, Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Eugene Johnson has turned to the courts in the hope of halting a council meeting that seeks to oust her.
The fate of the ANC-led coalition is on a knife-edge in Nelson Mandela Bay after it was finally agreed at another chaotic council meeting on Tuesday that Eugene Johnson’s future as mayor will be decided next week.
An attempt to remove Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Eugene Johnson failed at its first hurdle as the motion submitted this week was found to be “incompetent” by the speaker’s office on Friday.