This comes as the Johannesburg minority governing parties threatened to withdraw their support for the leading coalition last week because of their perception that the ANC had disrespected them by intending to fill the then-vacant finance member of the mayoral committee (MMC) position with someone from the ANC.
On Wednesday, the minority governing parties wrote to Mayor Dada Morero and ANC regional coordinator Sasabona Manganye, saying the parties believed that Amad, whose highest qualification is a matric, should be given the position of finance MMC, arguably the most important after the city manager.