{"id":3501,"date":"2014-10-10T06:27:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T04:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2014-10-10T06:27:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T04:27:26","slug":"leave-to-appeal-granted-in-councillor-expulsion-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/10\/leave-to-appeal-granted-in-councillor-expulsion-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave to appeal granted in councillor expulsion case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blurb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3503\" src=\"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/oudtshoorn.jpg\" alt=\"oudtshoorn\" width=\"160\" height=\"133\" \/>Acting mayor Vlancio Donson says DA leadership is expected to be comprehensively exposed in the continuing litigation<\/div>\n<p><b>Granting of leave to appeal on judgment of removal of 11 councillors welcome<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Oudtshoorn, October 09, 2014 <\/i>&#8211; I welcome the ruling this morning of Mr Justice Owen Rogers in granting me leave to appeal his August judgment in the matters of the removal of 10 DA Councillors and a Cope Councillor by operation of law.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling also justifies DA Councillor Peter Roberts. While disciplined by the DA, and eventually terminated as a DA member, for objecting the fraudulent Nel Settlement, Roberts attended council meetings while the DA Western Cape Provincial Secretary, also the MEC for local government, instructed the DA councillors to boycott the meetings leading to the removal by operation of law.<\/p>\n<p>The Nel Settlement perpetrators &#8211; DA Councillor Ben van Wyk; DA Councillor Chris MacPherson; and DA Councillor Pierre Nel, were found guilty by a protracted, turbid internal DA disciplinary process and forcefully struck by the fedex with an overcooked asparagus.<\/p>\n<p>The DA Leadership is expected to be comprehensively exposed in the continuing litigation.<\/p>\n<p><i>Statement issued by the Acting Executive Mayor, Aldm Vlancio Donson on behalf of Oudtshoorn Municipality,October 9 2014<\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Linkedin\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"big\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Leave%20to%20appeal%20granted%20in%20councillor%20expulsion%20case\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting mayor Vlancio Donson says DA leadership is expected to be comprehensively exposed in the continuing litigation Granting of leave to appeal on judgment of removal of 11 councillors welcome Oudtshoorn, October 09, 2014 &#8211; I welcome the ruling this morning of Mr Justice Owen Rogers in granting me leave to appeal his August judgment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thegremlin.co.za\/oudtshoorn-news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}