Mayor or not I’ll continue fighting to dislodge ANC – Mashaba
18 August 2019
A seemingly unfazed City of Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba says it is up to the parties that elected him into power to retain him as mayor.
He was speaking at a media briefing held at the DA’s Bruma headquarters on Saturday, following the party's two-day federal executive committee meeting.
The City of Joburg mayor, speaker of council Vasco Da Gama and the council’s chief whip Kevin Wax are facing a motion of no confidence brought against them by the ANC in council.
"On the 22 August 2016 I was elected by just 52% of council. The ANC voted against me, so I am not a mayor of the city of Johannesburg at the behest of the ANC, so if anyone has to vote me out, it is the parties that voted me in as executive mayor, and I will leave it to them to really decide," said Mashaba.