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The African National Congress (ANC) in Johannesburg has taken a decision to recall Dada Morero as mayor of the City of Johannesburg, following an urgent meeting of the party’s regional leadership that the party says exposed deepening divisions within the organisation.
An urgent and special meeting of the party’s Regional Executive Committee (REC) on Saturday resolved to remove Morero from the mayoral position.
Regional officials have now been tasked with informing provincial and national party leadership of the decision, which could trigger a leadership shake-up in the country’s economic hub.
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Former defence minister and Congress of the People (Cope) founder Mosiua “Terror” Lekota was laid to rest on Saturday and celebrated as a principled, extraordinary patriot who lived a life of service and sacrifice, a constitutionalist who believed that freedom had to be defended even after it has been won and was willing to reach across divides to bring South Africans of different persuasions together first to defeat the unjust system of apartheid and then to help build a democratic South Africa, Lekota’s official funeral was held on Saturday in Bloemfontein, in the Free State.
The funeral was attended by former Presidents Thabo Mbeki, in whose cabinet Lekota served between 1999 and 2008 when he resigned to protest Mbeki’s recall, and Kgalema Motlanthe, who succeeded Mbeki, National Assembly speaker Thoko Didiza, and National Council of Provinces Chairperson Refilwe Mtsweni Tsipane, who occupies a role Lekota held between 1997 and 1999.
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The political standoff has deepened tensions in the struggling Vaal municipality, with the ANC accusing opposition parties of sabotaging governance and the EFF arguing the rejected budget was unlawful and would have worsened the municipality’s financial crisis.
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