The financially embattled Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality has a new mayor following the resounding victory of ANC candidate Mxolisi Siyonzana over the DA’s candidate, Hardie Viviers, on Monday.
Newly appointed speaker Mapaseka Nkoane announced the result of the mayoral race at a full council meeting.
After the results were announced, ANC councillors broke out in song, calling for unity in their ranks. Earlier this year, in May, the ANC’s electoral body led by former president Kgalema Motlanthe disbanded the provincial body and established a new interim structure under Mxolisi Dukwana - a fierce rival of Magashule.
Prior to his election, the DA described his nomination for the post as “contemptuous”, saying he had failed to be accountable and accused him of having played a prominent role in protecting corruption over the past decade.The metro council had been without a mayor since a vote of no confidence was passed against fraud and corruption accused Olly Mlamleli in August last year.
The opposition parties and some ANC regional leaders in Mangaung - the biggest ANC region in the Free State - had blamed Mlamleli for the municipality’s downgrading to junk status by Moody’s rating agency.
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