After she left the provincial legislature in 2019, she served as Deputy Mayor of eThekwini from September 2019 until she resigned from politics in February 2021.
In June of that year, during the legislature's floor-crossing period, she defected from the DP to the African National Congress (ANC).
[5][6] She retained that portfolio until the next general election in 2019, when she did not stand for re-election[4] and resigned from the provincial legislature.
[9] She was sent to the eThekwini council as part of a corps of cadres – also including new Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda, new Speaker Weziwe Thusi, and new Chief Whip Sibongiseni Mkhize – that the ANC said would help improve service delivery in the province after the former mayor, Zandile Gumede, had been judged by the party to be unfit for office.
[8] On 17 February 2021, after prior unconfirmed reports to the same effect,[10] Scott announced that she would resign from the council in order to pursue a PhD and a career in the private sector.