Several Nelson Mandela Bay councillors have taken to social media to report receiving direct threats if they did not vote in favour the budget in a Council meeting on Thursday.
Patriotic Alliance councillor, Marlon Daniels, tweeted that he was told that he would see what would happen to him and his family should he not vote in favour of the more than 12bn budget tabled earlier this month by the mayor, Mongameli Bobani.
Daniels told Algoa FM News a short while ago that motions were tabled on Wednesday for the removal of the mayor, Mongameli Bobani and the Council Speaker, Buyelwa Mafaya.
He said he received the threats after informing the Budget steering committee, that the Patriotic Alliance would not be supporting the budget.
"That threat I cannot take lightly, a case has been registered according to procedures that councillors have to follow" Daniels said.
Daniels would not speak on behalf of other councillors receiving threats but said that there were at least three others.
One of those councillors was Siyasanga Sijadu from Cope.
She told us that she wrote a post on Facebook to announce that she had received a threat from four men who told her that they had been sent by SMME's.
Sijadu will also follow procedure to lay a charge and she will be escorted to Council by a security guard.
