New City of Joburg Mayor Jolidee Matongo has been killed in a car accident on Saturday.
The shocking news came hours after Matongo joined President
Cyril Ramaphosa, Gauteng Premier David Makhura and other City of Joburg leaders
on the election campaign trail in Soweto amid the voter registration weekend.
Matongo, 46, was sworn in as mayor following the death of Geoff Makhubo from Covid-19 related complications on July 9. A month later on August 10, Matongo elected as mayor unopposed.
At the time, 269 councillors of the City of Joburg endorsed
his nomination by the ANC on August 5.
Those who voted for Matongo included the Democratic
Alliance – the major opposition in the council chambers. In the past, the DA
led by councillor Leah Knott has nominated their own candidates.
Days prior to his death, Matongo had gone on various
campaign drives and various programmes such as the accelerated Service Delivery
in Zandspruit ward 114 alongside MMC for Environment & Infrastructure
Service, councillor Mpho Moerane and MMC for Public Safety, councillor Mally
Mokoena.
The Soweto-born Matongo was the sixth democratically-elected mayor of
Africa’s richest city, Joburg.
Prior to his election as mayor, the son of a Zimbabwean
migrant served as Joburg’s finance MMC under his predecessor, the late Makhubo.
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