The F4SD president, Mbahare Kekana, says his party will never tolerate councillors who fail to account for their failures and accept their responsibilities. This follows after another North West councillor, Sello Moraka, was recently removed by the party for such similar reasons. Kekana says the councillors must start comprehending that they are the deployees of their respective organisations and not employees of the municipalities. He adds that the presence of the councillor is to serve the interest of the F4SD and that his party will not tolerate non-performance from its deployees.

F4SD has been at the forefront of rigorously holding its deployees accountable without any fear or doubts. “Another F4SD Councillor in Metsimaholo has bitten the dust due to serving her own interest, undermining that of the organisation. No-one is born deployed, deployment is sustained through hard work,” he says. Kekana says the leadership of F4SD is resolute on holding its deployees accountable.

“The former councillor and his ilk within the organisation have all of a sudden developed an untouchable attitude towards the organisation wherein they refused to account to the very same organisation which deployed them.” On Thursday 13 June 2019, the High Court in Mahikeng dismissed Moraka’s case against the party with costs.

Moraka took the decision by the F4SD to remove him as a deployee to court while alleging that those asking questions about the financial statements of the party were being targeted and removed from the party. This, however, was dismissed by Kekana, who told OFM News that Moraka and other councillors are simply trying to evade their responsibilities by playing the victim card.

He said Moraka and others within the organisation had all of a sudden developed an untouchable attitude towards the organisation whereby they refused to account to the very same organisation which deployed them. Kekana lambasted Moraka, saying the latter could only manage to deliver a mere four votes for F4SD during the general elections on 8 May 2019 and that his organisation will act against the laziness of the deployees.

Following the court’s decision to dismiss Moraka’s case with costs, Kekana further said, in fact, the organisation will push for the municipality to attach Moraka’s property with the hopes of paying the party’s legal fees, following the dismissal of his case by the court. Kekana previously told OFM News that the councillors are not dismissed but removed as deployees of the party and says no-one is born deployed. Media reports earlier said that the councillors claim that they contribute 15% of their salaries to the party as a pledge each month, but do not know what happened to that money.

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