Jozini council fails to elect leadership third meeting in a row
26 August 2016
The Jozini municipality is at a standstill after the council has once again failed to elect a Speaker or any other executive position. As a result, the council is deadlocked and service delivery has halted making the people of Jozini the losers in this situation.
The Jozini municipality has been plagued with poor service delivery and corruption for years. The recent Local Government Elections had been used by the people of Jozini to finally show what they feel about the municipal leadership. It is very telling that the ANC was not returned to the leadership of the municipality with a majority and yet their behaviour indicates that they want to rule this municipality through back door nefarious means.
The Jozini council has now met three times to elect leadership. The first time resulted in a dead lock which led to the council having to adjourn. The second council meeting ended with the ANC requesting a ten minute caucus which they never returned from again causing the council meeting to be adjourned. Today, at the third meeting set to finally elect positions in council, the ANC just simply did not pitch up to the meeting.
If it were just the ANC not arriving or staying for these meeting the council could still continue but the fact that the Independent councillor seems to follow exactly the pattern as the ANC is an indication that these actions are deliberate and are done so to make the municipality ungovernable.