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Yet another attempt by the newly appointed leader of the Minority Front (MF), Shameen Thakur-Rajbansi, to fire three party councillors in the eThekwini metro, has hit a snag with the court reinstating the three to their positions. <\/p>\n
This is the second abortive attempt by Thakur-Rajbansi to remove the party\u2019s public representatives. <\/p>\n
A month ago, Thakur-Rajbansi fired the party\u2019s sole MP in Cape Town, Roy Bhoola, who refused to be recalled to the provincial legislature. He was brought before the party\u2019s disciplinary committee and fired, but the Cape High Court reinstated Bhoola after he challenged Thakur-Rajbansi’s powers to fire him. <\/p>\n
Bhoola also argued that the party\u2019s constitution made no provision for disciplinary action. She is now facing a challenge from three councillors whom she expelled from the party for a \u201cvariety of misdemeanours\u201d that were mounting. <\/p>\n
Thakur-Rajbansi said the three PR councillors \u2013 Dheenadayalan Govender, Lyndal Singh and Ganas Govender \u2013 had been fired for not appearing before the party\u2019s executive committee. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a sign of insubordination and we terminated their MF membership\u201d, said Thakur-Rajbansi, who added that once this had been done the party submitted new names to the council to replace them. <\/p>\n
However, the councillors took the matter to court and got an interim interdict reinstating their membership of the party and their positions in the council. <\/p>\n
Tests <\/p>\n
\u201cAs a party leader I will have to live with these challenges. These are tests that come with taking on this leadership,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
However, yesterday Singh said they had \u201cabsolutely\u201d no idea why they were being dismissed. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have not even received a letter from her why we were being removed. On Friday we went to the Durban High Court, which reinstated our membership,\u201d said Singh. <\/p>\n
eThekwini metro speaker, Logan Naidoo, confirmed that the council had received a court order preventing his office from replacing the three councillors from the council. <\/p>\n
Visvin Reddy, the former confidant of the late MF leader, Amichand Rajbansi, warned that without a clear succession plan in place and a proper constitution, the MF was bound to disintegrate without Rajbansi. <\/p>\n
Reddy said given that the party had no proper constitution outlining the leadership layer and seniority, what was happening now was bound to have happened. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe party never operated using the constitution. Mr Rajbansi ran the party almost all by himself; did things to suit himself. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was always clear to me that those left behind would not be able to run the party in the absence of a clear constitution,\u201d said Reddy. <\/p>\n
However Thakur-Rajbansi said yesterday that overall the Minority Front was \u201cstable\u2019 and \u201cfunctioning well\u201d apart from the challenges in eThekwini. <\/p>\n
\u201cI want to assure the voters that the Minority Front will not tolerate threats from councillors\u2026.,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Five councillors in the city have threatened to resign from the party if Thakur-Rajbansi tried again to remove some councillors. This would trigger by-elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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