The African National Congress (ANC) has announced the opening of public nominations for its centralised selection of mayoral candidates for the Local Government Elections (LGE)this year.
The process applies to the country’s eight metropolitan municipalities and 22 secondary cities and towns.
According to a media statement issued by the ANC on Wednesday, the invitation allows any South African, including non-card-carrying members to nominate individuals or nominate themselves.
The participation deadline is on Thursday.
The party’s Policy and Research Head Fébé Potgieter-Gqubule says the public nomination stream is one of six selection channels.
Potgieter-Gqubule says, “We’re doing it because we’ve listened to the IEC (Electoral Commission) Public Participation Research and even other research about the electoral reform in the country, which says that people want to see the faces of the people that lead them.”
She adds, “Mayors are the CEOs of cities and we have therefore broadened the process because we do believe that this is an important position in terms of leadership of the cities, in terms of vision for the cities and also in terms of holding the administration and the different agencies accountable.”
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