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was reinstated as a councillor and mayor two days later after he provided a certificate of solvency rehabilitation, which legitimacy subsequently came under scrutiny. The following day, the
Gauteng High Court in Pretoria issued a statement, in which they said that the rehabilitation certificate Makwarela provided to the municipality was forged and that the court has never issued such a certificate to Makwarela. He then resigned as mayor and a councillor on the same day. It was also reported that he was no longer a member of COPE. Brink was elected to succeed him as mayor on 28 March 2023.
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in 2016. As a result, he was disqualified from being a PR council member of the
Tshwane City Council, effectively stripping him off his mayoralty. City manager Johann Mettler’s office served Makwarela with a notice to prove he has since been rehabilitated, but he failed to provide any evidence. He
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called for him to resign as council speaker amid allegations of graft and sexual assault levelled against him, which he responded to by saying: It"s all lies. As things stand, it's premature for me to resign. The ANC wants to use these untested allegations as a political plot and to be a law unto
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announced his resignation as
Tshwane mayor, however, he soon after amended it, changing the date of his resignation to 28 February 2023, which caused confusion amongst councillors. Makwarela's office sought legal advice and Makwarela announced on 21 February 2023 that Williams' first resignation
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Makwarela also served as a non-executive director and as board chairperson of the
Biofuel Business Incubator from 2014 to 2019. He was a non-executive director at the SA Essential Oil Business Incubator as well. He served as a non-executive director at the Johannesburg Development Agency as
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as the strategic executive director of the municipality's
Agriculture and Environmental Management Department between 2007 and 2012. He then proceeded to work for the TAHAL Group as the chief executive officer of the company's South African branch, TAHAL South Africa between 2012 and 2014.
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with the support of the EFF and ANC. Makwarela defeated Brink in the mayoral vote which saw a majority of 112 councillors voting for him and only 101 councillors voting for Brink. It is suspected that some of the DA's coalition partners voted for
Makwarela.
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chairperson of the HRREMCO committee from 2020 to 2021 and as a non-executive director at the
Johannesburg Market from 2021 to 2022. He was also a co-founder of and chairperson of the Maluti Green Med, a cannabis-licensed pharmaceutical company, based in
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where he worked as a researcher cassava genetic engineering between 2000 and 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he was the first
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as their candidate whom
Makwarela initially pledged to support. COPE was soon removed from the coalition after Makwarela refused to schedule an urgent council meeting to elect a new mayor.
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On 17 November 2022, Makwerela opened a criminal case at the
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letter was valid and his second one not, which meant that the metro was now without a mayor. The DA, as per the coalition agreement signed between the parties, nominated MP
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Makwarela was elected speaker of the Tshwane City Council on 20 January 2022 as part of a coalition agreement COPE signed with the
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On 7 March 2023, Makwarela was found to have violated Section 47(1)(c) of the
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Makwarela died from a short illness on 23 April 2024, at the age of 51.
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