The Mayor of Danhauser Municipality, Mr. Sibusiso Kunene, has been sacked within a day of being appointed.
Kunene was ordered by his party, the IFP, to resign the day he was chained to the mayoralty.
Kunene was elected at the council meeting on Monday following the overthrow of the ANC leadership that was in charge of the council.
On Monday, the IFP executive committee decided that Kunene should step down.
In a letter written by the chairman of the committee that assigns leaders to positions in the IFP, Dr. Albert Mokoena, Kunene was ordered to step down on Monday.
“You are informed that the executive committee has decided to order you to step down immediately, before the working time has passed. You are ordered to sign the letter accompanying this notice, and send it to the general secretary’s office.”
Mokoena said that the party has ordered Kunene to resign so that he can get the chance to appoint them to the positions in this council.
Attempts to get Kunene to know whether he resigned as ordered by the party were unsuccessful yesterday.
The Danhauser Municipality was run by the ANC.
The mayor of the ANC, Mr. Bongani Hadebe, was removed by a vote of no confidence in his leadership.
It was not the first time that Kunene got the position of mayor.
Kunene was surrounded by the chains of the mayorship after the 2021 local government elections.
He held this position for two years before being removed by a vote of no confidence in his leadership.
When he was released in 2023, Hadebe took his place.
No party won by a landslide during the 2021 local government elections.
The IFP and ANC have nine seats each and there are seven councilors from the smaller parties EFF, ABC, DA, Community Freedom Front (CPF) and Team Sugar SA.
The IFP and ANC rely on small parties to run the council. It has been four times that the mayors have been changed, the IFP and the ANC have been overthrowing each other.
A party that tends to change things is a party without much of a history, the CPF.
This party jumps around as sometimes it votes with the IFP, sometimes it votes with the ANC.
CPF councillor, Mr Sibusiso Myaka, has been contested for the position of council speaker.