[caption id="attachment_223182" align="aligncenter" width="598"] Mayor Athol Trollip, second left, and from left, public accounts committee member Lance Grootboom, sport, recreation, arts and culture committee member Siyasanga Sijadu and speaker Jonathan Lawack at a media conference on why the council meeting could not be held
Picture: Brian Witbooi[/caption]

Coalition on shaky ground after DA pact with party collapses

The DA in Nelson Mandela Bay is hanging onto power by a thread after its new pact with the Patriotic Alliance collapsed yesterday, pushing the coalition government back onto shaky ground.

Just three months into it, PA national leader Gayton McKenzie pulled the plug on his coalition agreement with the DA after they failed to get Marlon Daniels elected deputy mayor yesterday.

According to Mettler, the next budget discussion will be in February, when an adjustments budget will have to be approved by the council.