Deputy Speaker, this country is governed by the Constitution, which makes provision for three interrelated, independent spheres of government.
Unfortunately, there was the intervention of Luthuli House in the past three months whereby the mayor of Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality was summarily dismissed without due process being followed.
It seems that the government does not understand the limits of its power neither does it have respect for the Constitution. Cope therefore urges the relevant Minister to ensure that corrupt, nonperforming or underperforming municipality mayors be dismissed or removed in terms of due process.
They should not be dismissed with unnecessary wastage of public funds or legal challenges to provincial and national interventions. I thank you.