Nelson Mandela Bay municipality finally passes its budget after 4th attempt
13 June 2018
The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has avoided being placed under administration, after the fourth sitting of a special council meeting to pass the next year's financial budget was finally successful.
On Tuesday, African Independent Congress councillor Tshonono Buyeye declared his party would support the budget during the meeting.
Buyeye, however, then left the council - in the company of African National Congress councillor Andile Lungisa and the United Democratic Movement's Mongameli Bobani - and never returned. This resulted in the meeting collapsing and being postponed to Wednesday.
It later emerged that key deliberations between opposition parties to convince the AIC not to vote on the budget had taken place since Monday.