MAYOR SANDLANE OUSTED AT MIDNIGHT

MANZINI – Finally, after Tuesday’s 10-hour-long dramatic standoff between councillors at Matsapha Town Council, the vote of no confidence against Mayor Sandlane Zwane was passed.

Impeccable sources said the motion of a vote of no confidence was moved and passed during a meeting which was held at the Matsapha Police Station boardroom at around midnight on Tuesday.

They said following the standoff which took place after the mayor ruled the fourth move to oust him defective, some councillors eventually left the council chambers around 11pm while the mayor and other members of the council departed at 1am yesterday.

Mover

The sources said the councillors who left at around 11pm were Bongani Mamba, who was the mover of the motion of the vote of no confidence against the mayor, together with Mfanufikile Dlamini and Musa Ndzimandze.
They said the councillors were joined by Deputy Mayor Siphesihle Sibandze, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Lucky Sukati and Ministry of Housing and Urban Development representative Gordon Mbuli.

They said the afore mentioned people were led by a senior police officer to Matsapha Police Station boardroom where they convened the meeting to move the motion.

During the meeting, the insiders said the deputy mayor was the chairman while the town clerk recorded minutes as the ministry’s representative observed the proceedings of the gathering.

“While the vote of confidence meeting was proceeding at the police station, the mayor, together with Councillors Bongani Mkhatshwa and Mavela Shongwe were in the chambers. They stayed until 1am on Wednesday (yesterday),” the inside sources said.
Efforts of getting a comment from the CEO proved futile as his mobile phone rang unanswered yesterday between 2pm and 3pm. When he was contacted later on, his mobile phone was off.

The deputy mayor, who chaired the meeting, could not be reached too as his mobile phone off for the better part of yesterday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Gordon Mbuli, who was representing the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, confirmed that just before midnight, the meeting of moving a motion of a vote of no confidence against the mayor resumed at Matsapha Police Station.

 He said the motion was moved and passed during the meeting which was chaired by the deputy mayor.
On another note, Mbuli said he did not know if councillors had been served with the final report of what transpired in the meeting, but his office had been furnished with one.

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