After trading barbs over alleged bribes over the weekend‚ the African National Congress (ANC) and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) traded songs ahead of Monday’s sitting of the City of Johannesburg council. The EFF had‚ on Sunday‚ accused the ANC of offering R500 000 inducements to its members to vote it and its mayoral candidate Parks Tau into power. Bovu sniped back that he would sue the EFF for defamation.On Monday‚ the parties’ members attempted to drown out each other with struggle songs as they entered City Hall ahead of the scheduled 10am start.WATCH LIVE: City of Joburg elects a new mayorThe City of Johannesburg municipality has convened the first inaugural council meeting: Will encumbent ANC mayor Parks Tau continue to run the country's economic hub or will the EFF throw its weight behind the DA's Herman Mashaba to hand him the mayoral chains? Organisers ran out of accreditation tags for the media as the number of journalists attending the meeting was greater than any ever witnessed by the city.The city is one of the hung municipalities across the country. The ANC‚ which had run the city‚ could not secure a majority vote.All eyes will be on how the EFF votes as the Democratic Alliance (DA) needs the Red Berets’ support if its mayoral candidate‚ businessman Herman Mashaba‚ is to be elected. The EFF‚ however‚ said that‚ while it will support all opposition parties to oust the ANC‚ it will not vote for Mashaba because his capitalist views jar with its own economic policies. – TMG DigitalThe DA has already claimed the City of Tshwane‚ where the mayor‚ speaker and chief whip came from its ranks. – TMG Digital..