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Loyiso Masuku

Loyiso Masuku

Loyiso Masuku is a South African politician of the African National Congress (ANC), chairperson of its Johannesburg region since defeating Dada Morero in 2025, and the first Deputy Executive Mayor of Johannesburg since February 2026.

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

7%Probability · Mayor of Johannesburg?

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Masuku was previously Member of the Mayoral Committee for Finance. Masuku is named among the possible contenders for Mayor of Johannesburg in the 2026 local government election.

Career

Masuku was Johannesburg's Member of the Mayoral Committee for Finance and deputy ANC regional secretary before winning the ANC's 16th Johannesburg Regional Elective Conference in December 2025, beating Dada Morero by 184 votes to 149 to become regional chairperson, the first woman in that post according to Sunday World. On 26 February 2026 the city council elected Masuku unopposed as the first Deputy Executive Mayor, a newly created post that absorbed the finance portfolio. In 2021 the Sunday Times reported Masuku's interest in the mayoralty; in 2026 the ANC listed Masuku among its Johannesburg contenders.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. EWN · Sunday World · Daily Maverick · Wikipedia

  1. Loyiso Masuku 7%
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Mayor of Johannesburg?

OutcomeLeft – RightAgeProbability
Helen Zille68%
Frank Chikane7510%
Loyiso MasukuCentre7%
Lukhona Mnguni6%
Herman MashabaCentre-right673%
Dada Morero1%
Kenny KuneneFar right551%
David Makhura<1%

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