Tania Campbell has been voted out as the City of Ekurhuleni mayor once again. Campbell was removed through a motion of no confidence with 126 votes from councillors voting in favour of her removal and 91 against it today. Opposition parties say Campbell has failed to deliver services to the people of Ekurhuleni. 

SECOND MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE  

This is Campbell's second motion of no confidence. In October last year, she was removed from office but later reinstated after defeating the ANC's Jongizizwe Dlabathi with 124 out of 224 votes casted. At the time, EFF had asked the ANC to allow it to govern the metro in exchange for its support in Johannesburg and Tshwane. The deal between the two parties didn't go through at the last minute after ANC regional chair Mzwandile Masina refused to support and acknowledge the agreement, which was given a green light by the provincial executive committee. At the time, the EFF fielded one of Julius Malema's close allies, Nkululeko Dunga, as mayoral candidate for Ekurhuleni, having agreed with the ANC at provincial level. 

COALITION CLASHES 

The EFF's Dunga said, "Campbell has displayed a lot of fails, one of them has been the racial profiling of service delivery and also the lack of apathy and understanding of the financial situation we find ourselves and her reluctance to actually engage in an aggressive revenue enhancing exercise that seeks to at least take down the debtors." Meanwhile, ActionSA said it supported Campbell in line with the party's commitment to keep the ANC and EFF coalition out of power. "We also wanted to avoid the installation of one-seat party mayors who serve at the behest of the ANC and EFF, as seen in Johannesburg," said Gauteng chairperson Funzi Ngobeni.