A party source said the ANC in Johannesburg would most likely call on one of the mayoral committee members to stand in as mayor until the local elections
shortly before he took office, Matongo said one of his proudest achievements was having been part of the Congress of South African Students , who advocated for the scrapping of examination fees for learners finishing high school.
Matongo met his death on Saturday after having spent most of the day campaigning side by side with President“Nothing could prepare any of us for this sudden loss, which has deprived our nation’s economic centre of its second executive mayor in two months,” Ramaphosa said. ANC leaders in the region were said to be mourning Matongo’s death on Monday and there had been no talks on who would succeed him. M&G
“Everyone is on the ground, the focus is on the elections so selecting a new mayor becomes a task we will have after the elections. There is no vacuum that will be created,” another party member in the provincial executive committee said.
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