ActionSA says it won't invite 'unnecessary instability' to Tshwane Municipality with regards to ANC's bid to remove city manager

JOHANNESBURG - ActionSA said it won't invite "unnecessary instability" to the Tshwane Municipality when asked if it will support the African National Congress’s (ANC) push to remove the city manager.

The ANC in Tshwane has launched a public campaign to remove Johan Mettler, claiming there were discrepancies with his appointment as city manager.

ActionSA held a media briefing on Tuesday on its ongoing participation within the ANC-led multiparty coalition government in Tshwane.

ActionSA member and Tshwane mayor, Nasiphi Moya, said the city was engaging the provincial and national COGTA departments around the possible "non-compliance" of the city’s senior managers.

"This issue of non-compliance we're talking about for these section 56 managers, it’s an issue of the constitution of the panel. The regulation says you must have one councillor (on the panel) but in all these interviews, and I’m talking about interviews that happened in 2022/2023, there were two councillors that were part of the panel."

ActionSA national chairperson, Michael Beaumont, said the party believed in the separation between political and administrative issues in government.

"As a party, we have ventilated our issue on the matter. It is a matter, and particularly in light of our view that we should not invite unnecessary instability in a city that’s starting to move forward for the first time in a long time."