Mbombela (Nelspruit) – The African National Congress (ANC)’s Ngelosi Ndlovu has been elected as the new Mayor of Mkhondo Local Municipality in Mpumalanga.
Zweli Ngwenya was elected Speaker of the Council.
Commenting on the election, the ANC in Mpumalanga on Thursday said it “welcomes with glee and optimism the outcomes of the Mkhondo Local Municipality Council meeting which sat on Wednesday, (25th of January 2023)”.
The ANC said the meeting “reaffirmed the hopes and aspirations of the electorate in that part of the Province, which gave the ANC 55% in the November 2021 Local Government Elections, which is a clear message that the ANC must lead the struggle for a better life for all through quality service delivery in Mkhondo”.
The election of Ngelosi and Ngwenya “has renewed the people’s contract of fighting poverty, unemployment, inequality, and all forms of underdevelopment in Mkhondo,” the ANC said.
“We want to assure the people of Mkhondo that the newly elected leadership of the municipality will do their best to improve the speed and quality at which services are delivered”.
Ngelosi is an experienced local government practitioner and councillor, who has served as a Speaker of Mkhondo Local Municipality.
She has also served as a general manager responsible for corporate services for the Gert Sibande District Municipality.
The ANC said Ngelosi’s election “marks an end to the rot and high levels of corruption and maladministration in that Municipality”.
The ANC added: “It is the beginning of advancing the people’s interests, though a people’s centred local government which at the top of its priorities is the creation of jobs, the fixing roads, the provision of clean water, the provision of decent sanitation and the ending of load reduction which is as a result of the high Eskom debt”.
