Al Jama-ah in Gauteng says it has yet to receive an apology from City of Johannesburg Speaker Nobuhle Mthembu following her remarks on the party’s councillor and former Mayor, Kabelo Gwamanda.
In a letter written to Mthembu earlier this week, Gwamanda’s legal team argued that the remarks on his alleged involvement in a funeral policy scam portrayed him as a criminal before any formal investigation or court ruling.
It has requested Mthembu to adhere to the confidentiality of council proceedings and given her until today to issue a public apology to Gwamanda or face legal action.
The party’s provincial spokesperson Anisa Mazimpaka says, “Councillor Gwamanda, through his legal team, is not demanding anything that cannot be done, for example, a public apology, amongst others, and that to me is nothing based on the damming allegations and alleged defamatory remarks that the Speaker has been making; and compared to the gravity of all the rules that she has flouted in the past month. So, if you look at the legal letters, they are requesting that she cease to make any further public commentary, and he is also requesting for a withdrawal of the statements that have been made.”
Gwamanda was fired earlier last week and released from all his executive duties by Executive Mayor Dada Morero after being on special leave.
Gwamanda was granted bail in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on a fraud charge last month.
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