Ruling raises security concerns for officials

THE Pietermaritzburg High Court's decision that nullified several Umvoti Local Municipality council resolutions could leave two senior officials without bodyguards.

- WILLEM PHUNGULA

On Monday, the court set aside several council meetings and its resolutions. According to municipal sources, one of the resolutions taken in the meetings that the court set aside was the provision of security to the two senior officials who had received death threats.

After a brawl that went viral last week, during which the two Abantu Batho Congress (ABC) councillors were forcibly removed from the council, the ABC's Philani Mavundla went to court.

He asked that the Speaker, Ntombi Ngubane, be interdicted from preventing his party’s councillors from attending the meeting.

The ABC also asked the court to set aside all council decisions that were taken without the participation of its affected councillors.