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A week after he was elected Tshwane mayor, Murunwa Makwarela was removed from the position because he couldn't prove that he wasn't insolvent. | ZintleMahlati

A letter written by Tshwane City manager Johann Mettler, directed to the IEC in Gauteng, confirms that a vacancy has been created for the mayoral position after Cope councillor Makwarela was disqualified because of insolvency status.

City of Tshwane's head of communications, Selby Bokaba, said there had been engagements between Mettler and Makwarela on the status of his insolvency. The coalition partners suggested the ANC and the EFF had bribed the eight councillors to break party ranks and support Makwarela's election.Tshwane in chaos: EFF snatch ActionSA's lie detector gear, as DA coalition boycott council sittingEFF Tshwane regional chairperson Obakeng Ramabodu told News24 that removing Makwarela was a speed bump but not the end of the road. He said that even if a new mayoral election was called"tomorrow", the EFF had a plan.

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