BREAKING NEWS: Mashaba elected as City mayor
JOBURG – Meet the new mayor of Johannesburg.
History was made today when Herman Mashaba of the DA was voted as Mayor of Johannesburg.
Council voted today, on 22 August, for the mayor they wanted to see represent The City of Gold.
In December 2015, Mashaba said, “It is about time that all of us take responsibility, especially the privileged South Africans, instead of watching our country collapsing.”
Mashaba, Founder of Black Like Me, was voted in with 144 votes, against 125 for ANC candidate, Mpho Parks Tau.
Vasco Da Gama of the Democratic Alliance was voted in as Council Speaker. Here is what Twitter had to say:
First order of business by new speaker #VascoDaGama: "let's go for lunch" #Joburg
— Unkel T (@GreatWhyte23) August 22, 2016
My money is on #VascoDaGama to help sail #Joburg out of troubled waters @Our_DA pic.twitter.com/Yluaj1F822
— Bertus le Roux (@BertusLR) August 22, 2016
People are saying #VascoDaGama has just made his first bad decision. #LunchBreak #JHBCouncil
— Wothi_Shandu (@MthethoMbatha) August 22, 2016
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