DA calls for Johannesburg city manager Floyd Brink’s removal following court judgment
This article has been supplied.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Wednesday called for the removal of City of Joburg (CoJ) city manager Floyd Brink after the South Gauteng High Court ruled that his reappointment had been “unconstitutional, unlawful and invalid”.
DA Johannesburg caucus leader Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku said the court upheld what the party had maintained since Brink’s “problematic” tenure began.
The DA challenged Brink's appointment in court after the African National Congress (ANC)/Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)/ Patriotic Alliance (PA)/ActionSA coalition supported it.
The court ordered that Brink must vacate his office within 10 days.
“Any employment contract or performance contract between the CoJ and now former city manager, Floyd Brink, has been set aside. Not only has his reappointment been set aside and declared unlawful, but Judge Wilson has also awarded the DA costs in this matter,” said Kayser-Echeozonjoku.
“In one fell swoop the court has upheld what the DA has maintained since Brink’s problematic tenure began – the Doomsday Coalition in the CoJ’s illegal and unconstitutional conduct will not stand.”
She said the CoJ had received an “expensive education” in the rule of law.
“This, at the cost of residents in the City who are forced to watch their service delivery dilapidate before their eyes, while a broken coalition does everything in their power to protect an inept, and illegally appointed cadre,” she said.
“Due to the DA’s court challenge for the rule of law, Johannesburg is finally rid of Floyd Brink - someone who presided over large-scale devastation, and previously unknown levels of service delivery collapse. This is an appointee who the City’s ANC/ActionSA/EFF/PA executive has been protecting. They have been handed a stunning judicial lesson today: ActionSA/ANC/EFF/PA – you cannot break the law and get away with it,” she added.
Article Enquiry
Email Article
Save Article
Feedback
To advertise email advertising@creamermedia.co.za or click here
Press Office
Announcements
What's On
Subscribe to improve your user experience...
Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):
Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):
All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors
including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.
Already a subscriber?
Forgotten your password?
Receive weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine (print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
➕
Recieve daily email newsletters
➕
Access to full search results
➕
Access archive of magazine back copies
➕
Access to Projects in Progress
➕
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA
R4500 (equivalent of R375 a month)
SUBSCRIBEAll benefits from Option 1
➕
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports on various industrial and mining sectors, in PDF format, including on:
Electricity
➕
Water
➕
Energy Transition
➕
Hydrogen
➕
Roads, Rail and Ports
➕
Coal
➕
Gold
➕
Platinum
➕
Battery Metals
➕
etc.
Receive all benefits from Option 1 or Option 2 delivered to numerous people at your company
➕
Multiple User names and Passwords for simultaneous log-ins
➕
Intranet integration access to all in your organisation

















