‘I am still mayor of Tshwane', insists 'disqualified' Makwarela
The Congress of the People’s Murenwa Makwarela insists he is still the mayor of Tshwane, despite a move by the city manager to disqualify him as a PR councillor.
Makwarela says that he will take the decision by John Mettler to disqualify him due to an unrehabilitated insolvency on review.
“I am the mayor of the City of Tshwane until due process is followed and concluded. What the City Manager is doing is to seek the IEC to validate my exclusion as a PR councillor from the list of candidates in our party which the IEC hasn’t done to date.
“The next step is to challenge the process. The council has processes to dispense with processes of this nature. The City Manager has actually overstepped or over reach. What he should’ve done was to write to the IEC as an independent electoral body seeking guidance on the matter but he has no right to remove me from the PR list of my party.
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“That could only happen when my party has approached the IEC to do so which my party didn’t. Also the matters that are referred to here under were disclosed, it is not like it was a secret to the party.”
City Press on Sunday reported that Makwarela was sequestrated in 2016 and a court order for outstanding debts was issued against him in 2019.
The sequestration was in relation to an outstanding debt of R255 000 owed to BMW's financial services department.
