{"id":92945,"date":"2025-11-14T18:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T18:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/lesufi-survives-da-no-confidence-motion-in-gauteng"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:02:38","slug":"lesufi-survives-da-no-confidence-motion-in-gauteng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/lesufi-survives-da-no-confidence-motion-in-gauteng","title":{"rendered":"Lesufi Survives DA No-Confidence Motion in Gauteng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi survived to see another day in office after the motion of no confidence against him failed to pass.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial legislature heard the motion on Friday, which was brought by the Democratic Alliance (DA).<\/p>\n<p>The party accused Lesufi of mishandling allegations of corruption regarding the Tembisa Hospital tenders and negligence regarding the unconstitutional establishment of the crime prevention wardens.<\/p>\n<p>However, the DA has failed to convince the majority of political parties in the provincial legislature to support its motion.<\/p>\n<p>The Gauteng provincial legislature consists of 11 political parties, most of which refused to support the motion of no confidence against Lesufi.<\/p>\n<p>Only the DA voted in favour of removing him, while all the other parties, including those in the opposition, voted for Lesufi to remain in office.<\/p>\n<p>Parties that rejected the motion argued that the DA\u2019s proposal was frivolous and pointed out that it was the DA itself that helped elect Lesufi last year.<\/p>\n<p>Legislature Speaker Morakane Mosupyoe announces the results.<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Front Plus refused to support the DA&#8217;s motion against the premier and chose to abstain from the vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi survived to see another day in office after the motion of no confidence against him failed to pass. The provincial legislature heard the motion on Friday, which was brought by the Democratic Alliance (DA). The party accused Lesufi of mishandling allegations of corruption regarding the Tembisa Hospital tenders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":92943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-92945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lesufi Survives DA No-Confidence Motion in Gauteng - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi survived to see another day in office after the motion of no confidence against him faile ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/lesufi-survives-da-no-confidence-motion-in-gauteng\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lesufi Survives DA No-Confidence Motion in Gauteng\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi survived to see another day in office after the motion of no confidence against him faile ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/lesufi-survives-da-no-confidence-motion-in-gauteng\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-11-14T18:51:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-11-14T19:02:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/11\/sm_1763134262.26949.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/lesufi-survives-da-no-confidence-motion-in-gauteng#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/lesufi-survives-da-no-confidence-motion-in-gauteng\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Lesufi Survives DA No-Confidence Motion in Gauteng\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-11-14T18:51:05+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-11-14T19:02:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/lesufi-survives-da-no-confidence-motion-in-gauteng\"},\"wordCount\":205,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/lesufi-survives-da-no-confidence-motion-in-gauteng#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/11\/sm_1763134262.26949.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/lesufi-survives-da-no-confidence-motion-in-gauteng#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/lesufi-survives-da-no-confidence-motion-in-gauteng\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/lesufi-survives-da-no-confidence-motion-in-gauteng\",\"name\":\"Lesufi Survives DA No-Confidence Motion in Gauteng - 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