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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Tshwane mayor Cilliers Brink\u2019s days in office seem to be numbered as ActionSA served divorce papers to its coalition partner the DA on Monday.<\/p>\n

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba announced that the party was leaving the DA-led multiparty government in Tshwane and will either vote in support of an ANC-sponsored motion of no confidence against Brink later this month or refrain from participating.<\/p>\n

The DA\u2019s Brink was elected in March 2023 through the support of a multiparty coalition that included the DA, ActionSA, the ACDP and IFP. He is unlikely to retain office without ActionSA\u2019s support unless he gets support of the ANC.<\/p>\n

The Sunday Times reported that some in the ANC believe that its national leaders prefer a stable arrangement that involves the DA.<\/p>\n

The DA has described ActionSA\u2019s move as \u201cthe final betrayal\u201d.<\/p>\n

Mashaba said the party will consult with various possible coalition partners \u201cfor the best outcome\u201d \u2014 but should it fail to secure an alternative coalition government, it can confidently be part of or return to the opposition benches.<\/p>\n

Mashaba said the decision to end things with the DA and consider an alternative coalition for Tshwane was not taken lightly. The party will propose a better alternative to \u201ccurrent abuses of trust, details of which we shall expose at the right time\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shall never take such serious decisions on a whim, just to satisfy anyone\u2019s ego or to simply spite anyone, especially when there is a government already in place that works for the people of, in this case, Tshwane,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have always spoken against unnecessary changes to governments that work but we cannot, with a clear conscience, remain quiet in the face of clear abuses of public confidence through spin, especially where the management of public finances is concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said ActionSA will not \u201cblindly\u201d go into a coalition in support of the ANC which it has always sworn to never support.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe party will never support, nor allow itself to be used to shield corruption and other forms of abuses, irrespective of whom we get into a coalition with.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mashaba told eNCA what triggered ActionSA\u2019s decision was discovering the DA was engaging the ANC to remove ActionSA from Tshwane.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone would have expected ActionSA to sit back and wait to be removed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went with the DA in Tshwane, we voted them into power so that we can remove the ANC and deliver to the people of Tshwane and do what is right for SA \u2014 but unfortunately it\u2019s really been a very abusive, toxic relationship where I think we reached a stage as ActionSA where we are saying enough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

DA national spokesperson Willie Aucamp accused Mashaba of bringing down an effective and well-functioning coalition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe coalition had achieved success and a significant improvement in the city\u2019s finances and audit outcome, a credible plan to secure maximum energy independence and a partnership with national government to solve the Hammanskraal water crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo show ActionSA\u2019s hypocrisy, they have taken credit for many of these achievements, and their councillors continue to serve in key mayoral committee positions despite Mashaba\u2019s pronouncements,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s conduct towards coalition partners, supporters and the public has been characterised by lies, deceit and betrayal, said Aucamp.<\/p>\n

\u201cLess than two months ago, the party was taking credit for the success of the Tshwane multiparty coalition and described the ANC\u2019s motion of no confidence in mayor Cilliers Brink as opportunistic.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow ActionSA, which holds the deputy mayorship and key mayoral committee portfolios in Tshwane, blames its coalition partners for the city\u2019s supposed failures.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said ActionSA\u2019s pulling out of the coalition had nothing to do with service delivery, the residents of Tshwane or the future of the city but that Mashaba had counted on a deal with the ANC and the EFF to elect an ActionSA mayor, the calculation being that the party would benefit from holding this position.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the statement issued by ActionSA this morning reveals that no such deal has yet been secured, and ActionSA has no plan for Tshwane aside from voting in a motion of no confidence to collapse a functioning government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only way ActionSA\u2019s ploy can work is if its new coalition includes the EFF, enthroning the party of chaos, hate and violence as kingmakers in a new Tshwane coalition.\u201d<\/p>\n

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