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News / NationalCCC censures councillors over controversial motionby Staff reporter1 hr ago |54ViewsThe Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Bulawayo provincial leadership has distanced itself from a controversial motion proposed by one of its councillors seeking to dissolve a key city council committee – a move believed to be part of a wider bid to extend town clerk Christopher Dube’s tenure.The party has ordered the motion’s sponsor, Cowdray Park councillor Nkosilathi Hove Mpofu, and all those who supported the proposal to withdraw it immediately or face disciplinary action.The standoff erupted after Bulawayo City Council’s general purposes (GP) committee rejected a proposal, reportedly initiated by Dube himself, to extend his contract to 2028.
The committee dismissed the plan as “illegal and unfeasible,” arguing that his existing one-year extension – granted when his initial four-year term expired in September 2023 – could not be altered.In a stern message to its councillors on Friday, the CCC provincial leadership declared the motion “null and void,” stressing that it did not reflect the party’s official position.”We would like to bring to your attention that this motion is not a party position,” read the statement.
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