Newly elected Mayor of City of Johannesburg Dr. Mpho Phalatse named her 10 members of the mayoral committee to serve in the metro. The mayor made the announcements after weeks of negotiations between coalition political parties that gave the governing Democratic Alliance (DA) a leg up to run the city.
Phalatse said that while the DA could have rushed the process, they opted to rather take their time to speak with other parties to negotiate moving from being a minority coalition government and work to stabilise governance in the city.
“I’m happy to announce that today we have managed to come to a point where we now have a majority coalition government in Johannesburg and that we will be having 10 MMCs in office,” she said.
The 10 MMC positions consists of members from the DA with four, ActionSA has three, the IFP, ACDP and Freedom Front Plus have one member each.
The mayor described the councillors as a dynamic group that would ensure fast and effective service delivery to the residents of Johannesburg.
The Mayoral Committee
- Finance – Julie Suddaby (DA)
- Group Corporate and Shared Services – Leah Knott (DA)
- Transport – Funzela Ngobeni (Action SA)
- Development Planning – Belinda Echeozonjoku (DA)
- Housing – Mlungisi Providence Mabaso (IFP)
- Economic Development – Nkuli Mbundu (Action SA)
- Health and Social Development – Franco De Lange (FF+)
- Community Development – Ronald Winston Harris (ACDP)
- Environment and Infrastructure Services – Michael Sun (DA)
- Public Safety – David Tembe (Action SA)
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