Former Joburg Mayor Dada Morero and deputy lose council seats
The Afrian National Congress (ANC) suffered an electoral decline in the city, moving from 91 seats in council to just 63 in the recent polls.
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Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero. Picture: Eyewitness News
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Former Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero and his deputy Loyiso Masuku will not be returning to the Joburg council after losing their PR seats in last week’s elections.
The African National Congress (ANC) suffered an electoral decline in the city, moving from 91 seats in council to just 63 in the recent polls.
However, all 63 of the ANC’s seats are ward seats, with none coming from proportional representation.
Municipal councils have two types of councillors, which are proportional representation councillors and ward councillors.
PR councillors are selected by their political parties to occupy seats in council, while ward councillors are directly elected by voters in a specific area.
Former Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero and his deputy were both high up on the ANC’s list of candidates for PR seats.
But with the party failing to secure any PR seats, the two senior ANC leaders will not make it into the city council.
This also brings both their mayoral bids to an end.
The ANC’s 63 seats in the council will now have to be occupied exclusively by ward councillors, with some of its most senior leaders now left unemployed.