Mtuba acting municipal manager makes quick exit
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ACTING Mtubatuba Municipal Manager Nonhlanhla Mzimela alleges new Mayor Qhina Mkhwanazi has forced her to resign.
Mzimela says some municipal employees have made her work impossible since the new council was inaugurated.
‘Some of them came to work wearing IFP T-shirts, and when I tried to reprimand them they told me my days as acting municipal manager were numbered.’
She claims the mayor told her to resign because many municipal employees were not happy with her leadership – telling her to hand in her resignation letter within 24 hours.
‘I told him I had to first wrap up my work and needed two weeks to do so. But at a meeting after the election of the speaker, the mayor fired me with immediate effect.’
Mkhwanazi disputed the claims, insisting she informed him when he took office that she would like to resign ‘to avoid being fired’.
‘She said she didn’t want to have a bad name when she gets employment somewhere else.
‘On Sunday I called her and inquired if she was ready to leave and to write the resignation letter as per her request.’
He found Mzimela’s resignation letter on email, which read, ‘Resigning with immediate effect as from 30 September’.
Mkhwanazi convened a council meeting on Monday to iron out the issue of vacant posts.
‘Mzimela was appointed by Cogta to be Acting Municipal Manager for three months, but she had been in that position for more than a year now. I cannot be the captain of a ship with a skeleton crew.
‘I put the matter before Exco (consisting of four IFP and four ANC councillors), after which the ANC councillors threatened to leave. They obviously want to make the council dysfunctional,’ Mkhwanazi said.
The council then elected the director of corporate affairs, Ningi Dladla, as the new acting municipal manager for the next three months until the position is filled.
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Mkhwanazi stressed he wanted Dladla and all acting directors to account for every cent spent by their departments, budgets for special projects to be scrutinised, a proper review of vacant posts and an organogram for all municipal positions to be drawn up.
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