KING Sabata Dalindyebo council speaker Funeka Dondashe is set to officially announce her resignation at a council meeting today.
Dumani Zozo, KSD’s ANC sub-regional chairman is to take over the reins from Dondashe.
Dondashe was pressured into resign ing by the ANC leadership as the party felt she was defying them and working with the opposition.
Dondashe The speaker reportedly defied the ANC by not reading a letter from the department of local government which gave a mandate to the council to appoint Nomthandazo Ntshanga as chief financial officer. The whose appointment was investigated by a multiparty task team.
The task team made shocking revelations about Ntshanga and how her appointment was carried out by the municipal manager, Zama Mnqanqeni, and the mayor Nonkoliso Ngqongwa.
Neither Neither Mnqanqeni nor nor Ngqongwa had seen her academic qualifications.
Despite this, the party ANC wanted her to be appointed, according to ANC councillors. Two weeks ago Dondashe was summoned to Calata House by provincial officials, where she was told to resign as council speaker. She was given until Monday to tender her resignation to the council.
Dondashe declined to comment.
She is among a growing number of ANC deployees to be given the boot by the party since the start of the year.
Last month Lukhanji mayor Mncedisi Nontsele was axed and replaced by Zakhele Gwantshu.
Opposition parties said it was the ANC’s culture to remove people “willy nilly” without any valid reason.
UDM councillor Mabandla Gogo said: “Two weeks ago we had a strategic plan in East London where we heard that she had been summoned to Calata House.
“She was told to convene a meeting on Monday March 25 where she was supposed to tender her resignation in council. a council meeting where the first item on the agenda is the resignation of the current speaker and election of the new speaker.”
COPE councillor Zanele Maqabuka said: “The speaker was not appointed by the party. She was elected by council.
“I don’t think they have the right to force her to resign. This shows the ANC’s blatant disregard for the law. If they obeyed the law they would not do that. It is clear now that the council is serving the interests of the ruling party, not the people of KSD.
“Our municipality will never get out of the mess it is in when the ANC still removes people willy nilly. They are now fighting about positions. We know that she is being removed to fill someone else. Even the mayor should be careful, she might get booted out as well.”
The council meeting will starts this morning at 10am today. —
KSD council speaker set to resign after ANC push
Dumani Zozo, KSD’s ANC sub-regional chairman is to take over the reins from Dondashe.
Dondashe was pressured into resign ing by the ANC leadership as the party felt she was defying them and working with the opposition.
Dondashe The speaker reportedly defied the ANC by not reading a letter from the department of local government which gave a mandate to the council to appoint Nomthandazo Ntshanga as chief financial officer. The whose appointment was investigated by a multiparty task team.
The task team made shocking revelations about Ntshanga and how her appointment was carried out by the municipal manager, Zama Mnqanqeni, and the mayor Nonkoliso Ngqongwa.
Neither Neither Mnqanqeni nor nor Ngqongwa had seen her academic qualifications.
Despite this, the party ANC wanted her to be appointed, according to ANC councillors. Two weeks ago Dondashe was summoned to Calata House by provincial officials, where she was told to resign as council speaker. She was given until Monday to tender her resignation to the council.
Dondashe declined to comment.
She is among a growing number of ANC deployees to be given the boot by the party since the start of the year.
Last month Lukhanji mayor Mncedisi Nontsele was axed and replaced by Zakhele Gwantshu.
Opposition parties said it was the ANC’s culture to remove people “willy nilly” without any valid reason.
UDM councillor Mabandla Gogo said: “Two weeks ago we had a strategic plan in East London where we heard that she had been summoned to Calata House.
“She was told to convene a meeting on Monday March 25 where she was supposed to tender her resignation in council. a council meeting where the first item on the agenda is the resignation of the current speaker and election of the new speaker.”
COPE councillor Zanele Maqabuka said: “The speaker was not appointed by the party. She was elected by council.
“I don’t think they have the right to force her to resign. This shows the ANC’s blatant disregard for the law. If they obeyed the law they would not do that. It is clear now that the council is serving the interests of the ruling party, not the people of KSD.
“Our municipality will never get out of the mess it is in when the ANC still removes people willy nilly. They are now fighting about positions. We know that she is being removed to fill someone else. Even the mayor should be careful, she might get booted out as well.”
The council meeting will starts this morning at 10am today. —
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