DA welcomes political office ban for municipal officials
3 December 2020
The Democratic Alliance (DA) will today vote in favour of the Municipal Systems Amendment Bill in the National Assembly.
If passed into law the bill will prohibit all municipal officials from holding elected or appointed office in a political party.
The 2011 Municipal Systems Amendment Act, which the bill will replace, had a similar political office ban. But the ban only applied to municipal managers and their direct reports.
Section 71B of this bill goes much farther, and the SA Local Government Association (SALGA) deserves credit for advocating the extension of the ban.