When newly elected Mangaung mayor Papi Mokoena was scheduled to announce members of his mayoral committee, the ANC in the Free State successfully interdicted him from occupying the higher office.
He was elected unopposed. Some ANC members, including the mayoral candidate Gregory Nthatisi, boycotted the council sitting on Friday 14 April 2023. <a href="https://www.ofm.
The ANC's firing of the councillors came back to bite them after the IEC challenged the procedurally flawed manner in which the party sought to fill the vacancies.
At the eleventh hour on Tuesday, the ANC’s 51 councillors in the Mangaung council wrote to Speaker Maryke Davies, of the DA - just a day before a special sitting met to elect a new mayor - and informed her that they would not be attending.