ANC and DA Resume Ugly War of Words Over Tshwane City

Lucas Ledwaba

Gauteng’s cooperative governance and traditional affairs MEC Lebogang Maile has fired a salvo at the DA administration in what appears to be a continuation of hostilities in the ongoing battle for running Tshwane metro.

Maile, who last week announced a decision to challenge a North Gauteng High Court’s ruling that annulled his decision to dissolve the metro in March, took a swipe at the city’s former administrators.

He was announcing progress made by a team of administrators he appointed following the provincial executive committee’s decision to dissolve the Tshwane council.

But DA councillor and mayoral candidate in Tshwane, Randall Williams hit back at Maile Thursday saying that that his report was “a shocking speech that was filled with a litany of lies, in an attempt to satisfy his lust for power.”

He accused Maile of repeatedly trying “to justify and defend his unlawful decision to place the Tshwane