Mavundla secures court order amid ructions in Umvoti council

LEADER of Abantu Batho Congress (ABC) Philani Mavundla has secured a court order in the Pietermaritzburg High Court to ensure that the party’s councillors are not removed from meetings at the Umvoti Local Municipality.

- WILLEM PHUNGULA

The order also set aside council resolutions taken by the council in meetings. According to sources within the municipality, one of the resolutions that has now been set aside was the provision of security to two senior officials who had received death threats.

After a brawl and a fist fight that went viral last week, during which the two ABC councillors were forcibly removed from the council, Mavundla went to court.

He requested that the Speaker, Ntombi Ngubane, be interdicted from preventing his party's councillors from attending the meetings.

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