Joburg mayor selects her mayoral committee
City of Johannesburg’s new administration has selected its multi-party leadership when ten Members of the Mayoral Committee (MMCs) were sworn-in on Tuesday, December 14.
The City’s Executive Mayor, Cllr Mpho Phalatse, said the residents expect all the 18 political parties represented in Council to work together.
Speaking at the Connie Bapela Council Chambers in Braamfontein, the mayor told the newly inaugurated MMCs that they have been forced to work together by residents despite their different political ideologies.
“From our development planning frameworks, to how we distribute resources, to our understanding and support of poor communities, and our enabling nature towards the business community. We have a mammoth task of understanding and managing the diversity that is before us. Each and every one of our 6 million residents is counting on that,” said Dr Phalatse.
The Mayor and the MMCs come from the Democratic Alliance, Action SA, Inkatha Freedom Party, Freedom Front Plus and African Christian Democratic Party. The entire Joburg Council has 18 political parties represented in total.
She said all the MMCs have to put their political parties’ hats aside and become members of one team.
“We are all from different political formations yet members of the same team. We have a natural inclination towards competition, with the view to eclipse or overshadow our colleague, but in this setting the co-dependencies between the different portfolios require of us to desire for our colleague to excel, in order for us to excel,” she said.
She urged all the incoming MMCs to collaborate, support each other and engage in the healthy competition for the benefit of service delivery.
“It is in this spirit that I would like to see the MMCs move into this term of office because a house divided amongst itself cannot stand. And as we stand here today, we’re all members of one team regardless of which political parties we come from. We are going to be building one city of Johannesburg and one legacy that we all together can hand over to the next generation,” she said.
The Chief Whip of Council, Cllr Tyrell Meyers, said the City is in great hands under the leadership of Mayor Phalatse and the MMCs.
List of MMCs and their respective portfolios:
- Cllr Julie Suddaby (DA) – Finance
- Cllr Leah Knott (DA) – Group Corporate and Shared Services
- Cllr Funzela Ngobeni (ActionSA) – Transport
- Cllr Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku (DA) – Development Planning
- Cllr Mlungisi Mabaso (IFP) – Housing
- Cllr Nkuli Mbundu (ActionSA) – Economic Development
- Cllr Franco De Lange (FF+) – Health and Social Development
- Cllr Ronald Winston Harris (ACDP) – Community Development
- Cllr Michael Sun (DA) – Environment and Infrastructure Services
- Cllr David Thembe (ActionSA) – Public Safety