The change would take all powers from the mayor and give them to a 10-member executive committee that will run the metro council. Photo: Mlungisi Louw
POLITICS
On Monday, the Eastern Cape cooperative governance department solidified the scrapping of the Nelson Mandela Bay mayoral executive committee system by gazetting a section 12 notice that would introduce a new system called a collective executive with a ward participatory system. This would take all powers from the mayor and give them to a 10-member executive committee that will run the metro council.
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