The African National Congress (ANC) Johannesburg has written to Gauteng Cogta MEC Lebogang Maile to ask him to invalidate the election of committee chairpersons during a chaotic council sitting on Thursday. Sixteen councillors from the Democratic Alliance, ActionSA, Patriotic Alliance, United Independent Movement and African Transformation Movement were elected to serve as chairpersons in various portfolios. The ANC had been eyeing those positions for its councillors.
Johannesburg council Speaker Vasco da Gama insists that the election process for 16 oversight committee chairpersons was above board and that council rules were adhered to. The African National Congress (ANC) Joburg caucus wrote to Gauteng Cogta MEC Lebogang Maile to request that the process be nullified on the basis that it was flawed.