THE City of Tshwane will remain without mayor for a while after the Speaker, Mncedi Ndzwanana, postponed Wednesday’s council meeting convened to elect a new mayor.

“The City of Tshwane will remain without a mayor for a while yet. This comes as the city council speaker adjourned today’s sitting to a later date. The speaker will seek a legal opinion on a Cope councillors’ eligibility to vote before a new mayor can be elected,” the City announced.

Ndzwanana said he needed more time to obtain a legal opinion on the status of COPE councillor Justice Sefanyetso, who was admitted as a councillor last week to replace Dr Murunwa Makwarela.

The Speaker told the council that he has received two different lists from COPE proposing the “withdrawal of Sefanyetso” as COPE PR councillor.

Last week Friday, DA-led multi-party coalition walked out of a Council meeting following what ActionSA called

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TSHWANE mayor Murunwa Makwarela has resigned with immediate after he was busted for fraud and allegedly submitting falsified documents to land a cushy job at the City council.

This follows confirmation by the Chief Registrar of the High Court in Pretoria Tumelo Ledwaba that the rehabilitation certificate submitted to the Tshwane City Manager Johann Mettler was “fake”.

Ledwaba said he has approached the Hawks to institute criminal proceedings into Makwarela’s insolvency clearance certificate saga.

“I, Tumelo Refilwe Ledwaba, the Chief Registrar of the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Division Pretoria hereby confirm that the document purporting to be an order issued by this Court was never issued by our Court”, Ledwaba said.

“I also confirm that no rehabilitation order has ever been issued regarding the parties named in the said document. I am also referring this matter to the office of the Directorate for Priority Crimes Investigations

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TSHWANE City Manager Johann Mettler says Dr. Murunwa Makwarela remains a qualified councillor following the submission of the insolvency rehabilitation certificate to the city council.

Makwarela was reinstated as Tshwane Mayor on Thursday after he provided a letter of solvency to the City Manager.

“The City Manager of Tshwane Johann Mettler has received a noticed of solvency rehabilitation from Councillor Dr. Murunwa Makwarela this morning and has subsequently informed the Gauteng Provincial Electoral Officer of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to withdraw the declaration of a vacancy for the Congress of the People (COPE) PR Councillor,” Tshwane spokesperson Selby Bokaba said in a statement.

Bokaba said the IEC has confirmed receipt of the letter.

“Accordingly, all the benefits and perks accorded to Dr. Makwarela as the executive mayor of the City of Tshwane have forthwith been reinstated,” Bokaba added.

Makwarela was elected Mayor of Tshwane last week Tuesday, and upon

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THE recently elected City of Tshwane Mayor  Murunwa Makwarela has been disqualified as a Proportional Representative (PR) Councillor.

Makwarela, a prominent businessman and COPE councillor, was elected as the new mayor of Tshwane almost two weeks ago.

According to a letter sent to the Gauteng Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), City Manager Johann Mettler said Makwarela is disqualified in terms of Section 47 (1) (c) of the constitution which state that people who are “unrehabilitated insolvents” cannot hold public office.  

“The City Manager of City of Tshwane Johann Mettler has written to the Gauteng Provincial officer of the IEC this morning informing him of a casual vacancy which has occurred at the city following the disqualification of a Congress of the People (COPE) Proportional Representative (PR) Councillor Dr. Murunwa Makwarela,” City spokesperson Selby Bokaba said in a media statement.

Although Makwarela was declared insolvent in 2016, Mettler gave him until

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COPE councillor Murunwa Makwarela has been elected City of Tshwane Mayor following Randall Williams’ resignation just over two weeks ago. 

A total of 213 councillors voted during the council meeting on Tuesday.

Makwarela received 112 votes, beating DA candidate, Cilliers Brink, who got 101 votes.

Makwarela, who was Tshwane Council Speaker and holds the party’s single seat in council, was nominated by African Transformation Movement (ATM), supported by African National Congress (ANC) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).

COPE is part of the DA-led coalition in hung metros in Gauteng.

There were no abstentions. The results mean the DA-led multiparty coalition has lost control.

Meanwhile, the multi-party coalition in the City of Tshwane expressed disappointment at the election of Makwarela as the Mayor of Tshwane.

“The multi-party coalition has held a majority since taking office in 2021 and continues to hold a majority of seats in council. As has

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