DA wins Mayor and Speaker position in Ekurhuleni
22 November 2021
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng wishes to congratulate Cllr Tania Campbell on her election as the Mayor of Ekurhuleni and Cllr Raymond Dhlamini as the Speaker of the Council.
During the Council meeting, it transpired that the DA may unexpectedly gain the majority vote for Mayor, thus providing an opportunity to wrestle power away from the previous dubious ANC government.
This was a spontaneous show of faith by other opposition parties in the DA’s ability to govern and a collective expression of the voters’ will to remove the ANC from government.
The DA’s provincial leadership endorsed the Ekurhuleni caucus’ choices for Speaker and Mayor and they were therefore nominated to contest and won both the Mayoral and Speaker positions.