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ANC SG Fikile Mbalula
African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula says that the party will formally open interviews for mayoral candidates this week.
Mbalula says the party’s mayoral candidate selection process has already opened, and that the ANC hopes to announce its contenders next month.
Mbalula was speaking to the media in Mamelodi, Pretoria, on Monday after a wreath laying ceremony for the late anti-apartheid activist Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu.
[WATCH] The brutal and murderous apartheid regime. We are gathered here on this solemn occasion to commemorate the life of Solomon Mahlangu and as we are reminded by the house of Mahlangu, we are gathered to revive the spirit of Solomon Mahlangu. We are gathered here to declare… pic.twitter.com/9V4PFr8ey1
— ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula (@MbalulaFikile) April 6, 2026
“This week, we will call a press conference in which we will give you a framework. We are formally opening the interviews as agreed by the General Council and the ANC that the national officials must be seized with the matter of appointing mayors in the metros and the secondary cities in the country. So, we’ll give you those cities. And then, we’re looking at around May to announce our mayoral candidates. The process of the ANC, as you will know, is all-encompassing. It involves mass participation.”
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