EFF still keen to oust Trollip
Ndlozi rejects mayor’s invitation to Malema to visit Bay metro
The EFF will not back down from its plan to table a motion of no confidence against Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Athol Trollip next month.
This is according to EFF national spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi‚ responding to Trollip’s letter to EFF leader Julius Malema inviting him to visit the Bay. Ndlozi said yesterday that results of the 2016 municipal elections were a clear indication by the people of the metro that no one deserved to be mayor.
“These results applied to him [Trollip]. There’s no double standard that we’re going to apply here. The EFF reserves its right to table a motion of no confidence‚” he said.
Ndlozi said Trollip’s comment that Malema had never been to Nelson Mandela Bay since the elections demonstrated the arrogance that they had been warning the mayor about.
“Why doesn’t he recognise the public representatives here in Nelson Mandela as part of the EFF?” Ndlozi said.
“The issue on the table will remain for us. The debate is about the DA’s stand on the expropriation of land without compensation and we will not divert from this.
“Did they [the DA] go around asking what the people of Cape Town think about tabling a motion of no confidence in [mayor] Patricia de Lille?
“Why must he [Trollip] receive special treatment?” Ndlozi said.
Trollip wrote an open letter to Malema on Tuesday inviting him to come to the Bay to see how the city was thriving‚ and arguing that the coalition government was delivering services to the poorest of the poor.