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The Mangaung Metro Municipality (MMM) is expected to oppose the application by its suspended Municipal Manager (MM), Tankiso Mea.
Senior Counsel (SC) Stefan Grobler is set to represent the cash-strapped metro in Thursday s application.
Mea filed an urgent court application to challenge his suspension, which is scheduled for later Thursday afternoon in the Motion Court in Bloemfontein. The embattled Mea was suspended after a string of allegations of misconduct and maladministration against him.
In total, 62 council members, including ANC, DA and EFF members, on Friday voted for Mea s suspension, 29 against it, whilst the Freedom Front Plus (FF Plus) failed to cast its vote due to network issues. Mea is expected to implore the court to set aside and declare his suspension unlawful.
First published in the Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.
2020 has been a tumultuous year for the SAPS. At least 20 rotten cops, many at the apex of the service, have been arrested, charged and dismissed for fraud and corruption amounting to hundreds of millions of rand.
Five years ago this colonic irrigation of senior ranks in law enforcement would have been unlikely if not unthinkable unless forced by an order of the court.
The arrests come after years of dogged investigation, often under life-threatening and career-limiting conditions by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (IPID) and propelled by a renewed vigour within the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA).