Suspended city manager Johann Mettler has agreed to a R2.6m settlement to resign from the Nelson Mandela Bay municipality — however, councillors failed to approve the deal at Thursday’s council meeting.

Instead, the issue was deferred to the next council meeting — on a date still to be set  — by interim mayor Thsonono Buyeye after the postponement was decided behind closed doors during a multiparty whippery meeting. ..