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he hurriedly convened special council sitting to oust Gabriel Malembe, the IFP mayor of Umvoti (Greytown) local municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, collapsed without achieving its desired objectives.
Councillors of the ANC and the ABC (Abantu Batho Congress) have now petitioned the municipal manager to convene another sitting.
If she fails, they threatened to ask the KwaZulu-Natal department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs (Cogta) to convene it within the stipulated period.
The ANC and ABC councillors told Ndaba to call the meeting within two days (from Thursday) as stipulated by the law governing special council sittings in the local government sphere.
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