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SIKHATSI CHALLENGES SUSPENSION

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MBABANE – Former Mbabane Mayor and Ward 4 Councillor Sikhatsi Dlamini is challenging his two-month suspension.


Dlamini is alleged to have wrongfully implicated the council as having requested for a contract of employment of the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Gideon Mhlongo, when in fact there was no such resolution.
Through his attorney Happy Mkhabela, Dlamini has since filed an urgent application at the High Court, where he is among other prayers seeking an order reviewing and setting aside the decision of the mayor to suspend him.
Respondents in the matter are the Municipal Council of Mbabane and Mayor Zephaniah Nkambule.


Dlamini is further seeking an order directing the Municipal Council of Mbabane to forthwith reinstate him as councillor for Ward Four.
The applicant (Dlamini) is also praying for an order declaring and setting aside the disciplinary proceedings against him as nullity and of no legal force and effect.


Disciplinary


According to Dlamini, the disciplinary proceedings against him violated Section 15 of the Urban and Government Act, the council was not in Committee when establishing the ad hoc committee.
In his application, Dlamini submitted that sometime on or about October 2017, he was elected by the people of Ward 4 in Mbabane to be their councillor.


He highlighted that in November 2017 he was subsequently elected by the 12 councillors to be a mayor in terms of the Council Standing Orders and Urban Government Act.
Giving a background of the matter, Dlamini alleged that in March 2018, he received a letter addressed to the mayor from the CEO, which was requesting that council should consider renewing his contract as per clause 3.2 of his employment contract.
“I then verbally requested a copy of the CEO’s employment contract from his personal secretary. She failed to furnish me with same for a period exceeding four times, as she kept advancing different reasons for not giving it to me,” submitted Dlamini.


Meeting


He narrated that on March 22, 2018, he had a meeting with the CEO, where he requested the contract and further advised him that he had been trying to get it for the past weeks and had failed.
The CEO’s response, according to Dlamini, was that he thought  he (Dlamini) no longer needed it as he  had a meeting with Bongani Dlamini, the Director of Corporate Services, where they  discussed the issue of the CEO’s contract.
The CEO is reported to have told Dlamini that he was going to ask his secretary to furnish him with the contract.

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