City of Tshwane Speaker Mncedi Ndzwanana has argued in papers filed in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria that he has the legal right to chair a council meeting which will hear a motion of no confidence in his leadership.
The DA and Ekurhuleni council speaker Raymond Dhlamini have filed an urgent application at the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg seeking to halt a special council meeting called by the city's manager for 30 January.
Eastern Cape Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs MEC Zolile Williams has scrapped the mayoral executive system in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro after amending Section 12 of the Municipal Structures Act.