Ex-mayor wants ouster case 'heard out of time'

The councillor was toppled as city mayor last September through a motion of no confidence but failed to challenge it in court within the required four months. Last Friday, he applied for leave to be allowed a late challenge through his lawyer Morgan Moseki. The move comes after the High Court ruled in February that a mayor cannot be removed from office through a motion of confidence.

In his application, Maiketso explained that after he was ousted, he sought legal advice and was told that he would be trying to be a pacesetter because at the time, mayors and chairmen of councils were being removed from office in a similar fashion.