The 53-year-old Geoff Makhubo was first in quarantine and was admitted to hospital last week
Johannesburg mayor Geoff Makhubo died at the age of 53 on Friday from health complications related to Covid-19, having been admitted in hospital last Saturday.Makhubo’s death, saying his family had asked for privacy “as they process the untimely passing of one of their own” and urged mourners not to gather outside his home.
“Mayor Makhubo dies at a time when the City of Johannesburg was accelerating service delivery in communities, especially in poor and working-class communities,” he said. “These 76 officials were mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, grandmothers and grandfathers to scores of families. They were colleagues who also played a key role in ensuring that service delivery is indeed accelerated for our residents. They were not just numbers,” said Brink.
Makhubo’s tenures as finance head and then mayor were marred by a series of allegations relating to corruption and shady tenders. quoted evidence leaders as saying Makhubo took payments from the information technology company, EOH, as reward for city tenders.
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