ANC regional chairperson Dada Morero could be the next mayor of the City of Joburg.
African National Congress regional secretary, Sasabona Manganye says that the City of Johannesburg will have a new mayor soon.
“By Friday next week you will have a new mayor that comes from the African National Congress. There won’t be any December issue,” he said on Saturday.that the ANC has always held a view that the mayor of Johannesburg should come from the ANC, despite the fact that the party had not one an outright majority in the 2021 local government elections.
“The EFF was not willing to support a mayor of the ANC because they wanted a mayor in Ekurhuleni, while they were not a majority and the compromise was to say let the two municipalities have a minority mayor,” he said.
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