After eight months of squabbles and court battles, the DA is back in charge in the Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality after its councillor was elected the new executive mayor on Friday.In his first speech, Williams expressed his gratitude to the DA and its faith in him and promised to enhance service delivery in the embattled city. He said he would pick highly skilled councillors to serve in the mayoral committee to ensure that the situation in Tshwane improves.
This did not, however, affect the voting process as the council had enough votes to form a quorum with the DA’s 93 votes, the EFF’s 25 votes, the Freedom Front Plus four. The African Christian Democratic Party, the Congress of the People and Pan Africanist Congress have one vote each. “DA had made out a proper case under section 18 of the [Local Government] Act [of 2000] – the running of the city of Tshwane by an unelected administrator is the very antithesis of democratic and accountable government for local communities, enshrined in Gauteng loses Tshwane dissolution appeal case to the DA