The Port Elizabeth High Court has upheld its earlier decision that the Nelson Mandela Bay Speaker, Buyelwa Mafaya, must call a council meeting to elect an Executive Mayor within seven days.
The Democratic Alliance says in a statement that it welcomes the judgment handed down by Judge Irma Schoeman on Tuesday that in the main dismissed the Municipality’s appeal against the earlier court order.
In August of this year, Judge Schoeman ordered that the Speaker convene a council meeting within seven days of the court order and that the election of a Mayor must be on the Agenda.
The judge also ordered that the Speaker and the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality must pay the cost of the original court application.
DA Councillor Morne Steyn says the latest judgment follows more than two years after the ANC-led Coalition removed the DA and its coalition partners from government and almost a year since this Metro has had a lawfully elected Executive Mayor.
