Jozi Metro defends Brink and calls his arrest warrant “abuse of the law”

Johnathan Paoli

THE City of Johannesburg has denounced an attempt by the Sheriff of the Court to serve a warrant of arrest on City Manager Floyd Brink, following a legal dispute over rates owed to the metro by a resident.

The Sheriff attempted to effect the warrant on Brink on Wednesday but failed due the warrant being defective, specifically relating to a spelling error in Brink’s surname as well as an incorrect ID number.

In addition, the Sheriff was blocked from delivering the warrant at Brink’s Roodepoort home by 13 unmarked vehicles which blocked the way.

The saga involves electrical import business, Pibir Investments, which flagged a query with the metro after its water bill experienced a disproportionate increase from R17 565 in December 2021 to R138 775 in January 2022.

On 15 August last year, Acting Judge Yasin Carrim ruled that both the city as well as Johannesburg Water