Six EFF councillors axed after voting with ANC

THE EFF has expelled six of its councillors in Mogale City on the West Rand for defying the party by voting for the ANC.

It came after a national disciplinary committee hearing.

The red beret party said the councillors had contravened an EFF decision not to attend the Mogale City budget vote meeting on July 11 in which the ANC needed its budget to be passed.

“These councillors not only helped for a council meeting quorum to be constituted‚ they voted in favour of the proposed ANC budget,” the EFF said.

“The organisation took exception to this conduct as it returned the public purse to the hands of the ANC.

“This is the same ANC that the people of Mogale City removed from the government, following the 2016 local government elections outcomes.

“It is the same ANC that has been looting the public purse since 1994, to the exclusion and marginalisation of our people,” the party said.

The EFF said the mandate not to vote with the ANC was consistent with the party’s fight against corruption.

“These six councillors, namely Ms Nhlanhla Shilubane‚ Ms Nomonde Nkatu‚ Ms Lemogang Modisane‚ Mr Eric Baloyi‚ Mr Edward Motsitsi and Mr Simanga Mkhumbeni, essentially betrayed our revolutionary tenant,” the EFF said.

“Accordingly‚ they have all been expelled from the EFF.”

The party said, however, that the six councillors had the right to appeal, but that the expulsions were effective “even when under appeal”.

“The EFF will communicate with the Mogale City municipal manager to declare the vacancies so that we can replace all six‚” it said.