As the DA and its partners celebrate ousting the ANC-led coalition in Nelson Mandela Bay, concerns have been raised about the Eastern Cape government pulling the rug from under their feet and implementing section 12 of the Municipal Structures Act.

Former co-operative governance and traditional affairs MEC in the province Xolile Nqatha introduced a plan to scrap the mayoral executive system and introduce a collective executive with a ward participatory system that will take powers away from a mayor and allow a new committee to run proceedings...