Joburg City Manager leaving under a cloud?

The DA has raised serious concerns regarding today’s cancelled Council meeting which sources suggest was effectively intended to coerce the City Manager into resigning.

On Monday, the ANC called an extra-ordinary Council Meeting for today which was for a Human Resources item related to the disciplining of a senior official. Today, the meeting was opened by the Speaker who then proceeded to cancel it, indicating that a ‘settlement’ with the implicated senior manager had been reached.

We have reason to believe that the implicated senior manager is the City Manager.
This will leave the City’s administration leaderless when it cannot afford to be at this critical point in time. The Mayor is currently presiding over more than R400 million in corrupt Covid-related contracts and has been unable to exert the honest and dedicated leadership that the residents of Johannesburg deserve.

We hope that the City Manager is not being made to take the fall for the Mayor’s failings. The DA will not allow for any golden handshake deal which attempts to absolve anyone in the executive of their role in the City’s Covid corruption scandal.