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Minority Front leader Shameen Thaku-Rajbansi on Tuesday denied accusations by some of her councillors that she had failed to follow democratic procedures in the party, declaring it was clear that she was dealing with a \u201cconfused lot\u201d of new councillors. <\/p>\n
Councillors stormed out of the party\u2019s executive committee meeting in Chatsworth on Monday, and yesterday eThekwini councillors met to plot the way forward but expressed fear they would be \u201cvictimised\u201d for speaking out against her. <\/p>\n
Councillor Ismail Cassimjee, the chairman of the Minority Front\u2019s eThekwini caucus, said Tuesday\u2019s meeting at the Durban City Hall was \u201cnot an attack on the leadership\u201d. <\/p>\n
He said they just wanted Thakur-Rajbansi to listen to recommendations made by councillors and follow democratic processes. <\/p>\n
Two of the main issues of contention are the position of Patrick Pillay as the exco councillor in the municipality and the appointment of the Minority Front\u2019s proportional representation councillors. <\/p>\n
Cassimjee said when Thakur-Rajbansi was told that councillors were unhappy with Pillay\u2019s performance and attitude and wanted a say in who made it to the PR list, she contacted those who had voiced their concerns and instructed them to withdraw their motions. <\/p>\n
He said when she refused to listen to them at Monday\u2019s meeting, 10 of the 15 councillors present walked out. She then asked that a delegation be sent in to discuss the matter, but it remained unresolved. <\/p>\n
At Tuesday\u2019s meeting the councillors decided the best approach was to put their concerns in writing. <\/p>\n
Thakur-Rajbansi said there was a lot of confusion among some of the councillors. \u201cConfusion only comes, in my considered opinion, when a small group of persons speak from the depths of ignorance on political procedures\u2026\u201d <\/p>\n
She said there was a handful of councillors who had never questioned the leadership style of former leader Amichand Rajbansi, yet now that she did things exactly as he had, she was targeted. She said in July the new councillors would be sent for training with the Independent Electoral Commission and she was organising further workshops to educate them. <\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to believe that some of them are untrainable… I will get professionals to train them.\u201d <\/p>\n
Thakur-Rajbansi said there was no favouritism in the party. <\/p>\n
She said she didn\u2019t have any brothers or sisters who held positions in the party, unlike the Minority Front\u2019s MP in Cape Town, Roy Bhoola, whose wife was an MF councillor and whose sister worked as a personal assistant in the party\u2019s Chatsworth office. <\/p>\n
The Cape Town High Court recently ruled that Bhoola, the only national parliamentarian, would remain in his position pending the finalisation of a court application he brought against Thakur-Rajbansi, who wanted to permanently expel him. <\/p>\n
Bhoola, who was apparently close to the late Rajbansi, was fired by Thakur-Rajbansi in April this year for \u201cgross insubordination\u201d. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Cassimjee on Tuesday said MF councillors were unhappy with the way in which she had handled the Bhoola issue but that they had not been given a chance to express their views. – The Mercury <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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