Johannesburg's Mpho Phalatse faces another possible removal from office

Johannesburg mayor Mpho Phalatse is in the firing line again as she faces three motions of no confidence at this week's council meeting on Thursday.

This is the third time Phalatse faces such motions. The first, last September, saw her removed from office with the ANC's Dada Morero taking over the reins, albeit for three weeks. Phalatse was later reinstated after a court challenge.

She survived a second attempt after the African Independent Congress' Margaret Arnolds withdrew her no confidence motion at the eleventh hour.

Phalatse's spokesperson Mabine Seabe confirmed the pending motions to oust the mayor, saying “for as long as councillor Mpho Phalatse is in office she is focused on dispensing her duties under the banner of repairing and rebuilding the City of Johannesburg”.

Seabe said the DA-led multiparty government was “forward-looking” and not allowing political machinations to affect the work of government and services it provides to the six-million residents of the city.

“Those who tabled the motions of no confidence and the speaker will need [to] speak to the motions tabled.