Mashaba will step down from his job on November 27 after his dramatic resignation from the DA.
He said Ngobeni had been a long-serving DA councillor before he took over as the leader of government business and finance MMC in 2018.
Ngobeni's selection as mayoral candidate comes weeks after he was elected regional leader of the DA in Johannesburg. Julius Malema’s EFF, which has kept the DA in power since 2016, has fallen out with Ngobeni's party since shortly after the elections in May.
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