Zille To Be Mayor... Maybe 4
According to electoral law Cape Town is supposed to have a municipal council convened one week after elections results are officially announced. Well it’s been a week and still we’re wating (with baited breath I might add) for who will be the mayor.
The ID seem to have thrown their hands in the air and told the ANC and DA to choose a mayor, which would mean Helen Zille would be in the top slot. Perhaps even the ID decided Simon Grindrod was just a tad inexperienced for the job.
Meanwhile here’s a juicy morsel left dangling at the end of the article:
And ID leader Patricia de Lille is facing an internal revolt in the Southern Cape.
Do tell, do tell. Considering the number of municicpalities in the Western Cape that are split between the DA and ANC with the ID in the middle, this might shift the balance in some areas.
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One imagines the ID revolt has something to do with how the ID reorganised its electoral list after the election. Grindrod says that the dismissal of some of the newly-elected councillors has to do with their ineffectiveness in the campaign. But remember the last time there were revolts in the ID, it had to do with alleged nepotism.
It’s rumoured that the ID had all its candidates sign undated resignation letters before the election, and is now dating some of those and submitting them to the councils.
Sneaky. You should do that before the next floor crossing window.
That’s “bated breath” BTW… except if you have a severe case of halitosis…
Get ‘em to sign resignation letters before floor-crossing? It’s been tried already by the UDM, and it doesn’t work. Once a crosstitute’s crossed the floor, he doesn’t work for you any more, so the resignation letter misfires.
You can only use that loaded gun against people in your own party, which makes the ID’s decimation of their own people doubly grotesque.