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ActionSA Ekurhuleni mayoral candidate Xolani Khumalo was sworn in as councillor on Monday.
- Xolani Khumalo, ActionSA’s mayoral candidate for Ekurhuleni, has been sworn in as a councillor in the City.
- ActionSA said that as a councillor, Khumalo would gain insight into the City’s workings.
- ActionSA has also opened nominations for ActionSA’s mayoral candidate in the City of Johannesburg.
ActionSA’s Ekurhuleni mayoral candidate, Xolani Khumalo, has been sworn in as a councillor in the City.
Speaker Nthabiseng Tshivhenga swore him in on Monday morning.
In a statement on Monday, ActionSA Ekurhuleni spokesperson Tumelo Tshabalala said becoming a councillor would help Khumalo gain the insight needed to prepare to govern the City.
“Khumalo’s appointment to the Ekurhuleni council marks an important step in ActionSA’s preparation to govern the metro. Serving as a councillor will provide him with valuable exposure to the municipality’s inner workings, allowing him to study its systems, operations, and challenges first-hand.
“This experience will ensure a seamless transition from his years as a respected community activist to an informed public representative, fully equipped to lead ActionSA’s fight to fix Ekurhuleni and deliver meaningful change for its residents,” Tshabalala said.
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When the party announced last month that Khumalo, best known as the presenter of drug-busting TV show Sizokuthola on Moja Love, was its mayoral candidate, party president Herman Mashaba said he was confident Khumalo could lead the party in the metro.
“[This is] a leader who will end corruption, who will restore dignity to forgotten communities, who will deliver services for all residents, who will give Ekurhuleni the fresh start it deserves - a leader who will fix this city,” Mashaba added.
Addressing party members after he was announced as ActionSA’s mayoral candidate, Khumalo pledged to target corruption in the City with the same enthusiasm he had used to chase drug dealers.
“We will establish an independent anti-corruption unit that will go after rotten officials,” he said.
“Every official living beyond their means will face lifestyle audits. Corruption is as dangerous as drugs, and it must end.”
He also promised that, if he was elected mayor, he would create a specialised Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department unit to “crush gangs and drug syndicates”, and said that the delivery of services, such as water, electricity, refuse removal, and road repairs, would be restored as a matter of dignity.
Meanwhile, ActionSA has also opened nominations for a mayoral candidate in the City of Johannesburg.
According to the party, Mashaba requested an open nomination process for the mayoral candidate so that ActionSA could consider all options for a credible candidate.
In a statement earlier this month, the party said Mashaba had indicated that he needed time to reflect on whether to stand for Joburg mayor after what ActionSA said was “numerous calls for him to stand”.
