DA files court papers to ask for immediate end to Tshwane administration
The Democratic Alliance (DA) filed papers in the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday to ask it to immediately put an end to the administration process in Tshwane.
This is in response to the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), which filed an application for leave to appeal a ruling by the same court declaring the dissolution of the Tshwane council unlawful.
“The problem is that once the ANC and the EFF had applied for leave to appeal, they would have the automatic impact of suspending that judgment,” says the DA’s Gauteng chairperson Mike Moriarty.
“The rules of court in section 18, sub-section 3, allow for an applicant such as ourselves to go back to the court and ask that the rule be effected immediately and not be held up by the appeal.”
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The ongoing battle for the power in the capital has left it without a mayor since the resignation of Stevens Mokgalapa in February.
The city was subsequently placed under administration by Cooperative Governance MEC Lebogang Maile.
That decision was declared unlawful by the high court, but will also be taken on appeal.
Maile announced on Wednesday that the city’s administrators, led by Mpho Nawa, had approached the South African Revenue Service’s legal panel to assist in cleaning up the city’s finances.