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Gregory Nthatisi

Gregory Nthatisi

Gregory Nthatisi is a South African politician of the African National Congress (ANC) and a former anti-apartheid activist and Umkhonto we Sizwe veteran.

Party
African National Congress
Political position

Centre · Where sources place the party (African National Congress)
Wikipedia: centre to centre-left (African National Congress)
Ideology: social democracy, African nationalism, non-racialism

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He has been a councillor in Mangaung since 2023 and its Executive Mayor, acting from April 2023 and permanent from October 2023. He is the ANC's incumbent mayor and a contender for Mayor of Mangaung in the 2026 local government election.

Career

Nthatisi was a member of the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe, during apartheid, and by 2020 was secretary-general of the MK Council. The ANC nominated him in January 2023 as one of three candidates to replace Mxolisi Siyonzana as Mangaung mayor after the party removed Siyonzana over service delivery, and its national executive chose him in March 2023. He was sworn in as councillor on 28 March 2023, elected acting executive mayor on 26 April 2023 with 50 of 93 votes, and became permanent mayor on 13 October 2023 after an earlier election was challenged in court.

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  1. Gregory Nthatisi 7%
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Mayor of Mangaung (Bloemfontein)?

OutcomeLeft – RightProbability
Werner PretoriusCentre35%
Bongani Mathae8%
Lulaman Oditi-Titi8%
Sam Matiase7%
Gregory NthatisiCentre7%
Vusimuzi Soqaga7%
Motshewa Tladi4%
Thabo Manyoni4%
Sekhopi MaleboCentre4%
Theodorah Mosala-Leeuw2%

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