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The Democratic Alliance is seeking intervention at national level with President Cyril Ramaphosa, as leader of the African National Congress (ANC), after the DA-led coalition was removed in the City of Tshwane in a motion favoured by ANC, EFF and former ally ActionSA.<\/p>\n
reported on Thursday that DA\u2019s Cilliers Brink was removed officially from his position as the executive mayor of Tshwane during a council session at Tshwane House.<\/p>\n
This decision follows a motion of no confidence filed by the African National Congress to the Tshwane speaker who informed Brink about the motion of no confidence.<\/p>\n
However, Solly Msimanga, who is DA Gauteng provincial leader, says the DA national leader has agreed to seek a meeting with Ramaphosa to engage on the instability at the local sphere of government, which saw the DA hounded out of office despite being in partnership with the ANC at a national level.<\/p>\n Msimanga on Saturday told broadcaster Newzroom Afrika that even before the motion of no confidence was brought against Brink, the DA had been concerned over the instability at different municipalities in Gauteng.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have been making this call even before this motion in Tshwane was put forward. We have been saying it cannot be that we have instability across a number of municipalities in Gauteng. <\/p>\n \u201cYou would know that Johannesburg has also had about six mayors in a space of three years. There has been motions in Ekurhuleni and so forth. We cannot continue to have this. We won the second highest number of wards across the province and therefore it affects our public representatives as well who, when services are not being delivered, they feel the brunt from the communities,\u201d the former Tshwane mayor said.<\/p>\n He said the DA wants the ANC to sit with it at the table and talk about ensuring long-term stability in the municipalities.<\/p>\n Msimanga said while the relationship is cosy between the DA and ANC at national level, which birthed the Government of National Unity, the situation is totally different at a provincial level. The ANC in Gauteng is led by Premier Panyaza Lesufi.<\/p>\n \u201cThe engagements have really never been straightforward, has never been honest, we would say this is what we want to do and then something else happens. Perhaps there needs to be a conversation at a national level,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n If the meeting with Ramaphosa happens, Msimanga said the engagement should take national stock, not only focus on City of Tshwane.<\/p>\n He said the DA believes South Africa is at an epoch of coalition governments which should work to bring services to South Africans at national, provincial and municipal levels. However, Msimanga said the DA has been hitting a \u201cbrick wall\u201d when it comes to the Gauteng province.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is why we are saying maybe the two national leaders, that is President Cyril Ramaphosa and John Steenhuisen will need to engage at that level and say are we then able to talk about how we bring stability across municipalities. Modalities can be engaged in that particular meeting where we where we can look at the confidence and supply, even if it is an ANC government, we can hold each other to account,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Such an arrangement, Msimanga said, would eradicate the trend of having motions of no confidence passed \u201devery other day\u201d.<\/p>\n Brink was removed after serving for 18 consecutive months at the helm of Tshwane.<\/p>\n Before the final decision, Brink expressed his determination to fight against the motion of no confidence.<\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Democratic Alliance is seeking intervention at national level with President Cyril Ramaphosa, as leader of the African National Congress (ANC), after the DA-led coalition was removed in the City of Tshwane in a motion favoured by ANC, EFF and former ally ActionSA. reported on Thursday that DA\u2019s Cilliers Brink was removed officially from his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[10615,14030,118,368,11410,2938,1038,11073,426,4261,2073,7133],"class_list":["post-218956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics","tag-brink","tag-cilliers","tag-claims","tag-gauteng","tag-hurdle","tag-meeting","tag-president","tag-province","tag-ramaphosa","tag-removed","tag-seeks","tag-tshwane"],"yoast_head":"\n