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Ntombi Mekgwe

Ntombi Mekgwe

Ntombi Mekgwe (Lentheng Helen Mekgwe, born 1964) is a South African politician of the African National Congress (ANC), which sources describe as centrist to centre-left.

Born
1964 (61 years)
Party
African National Congress
Political position

Centre · Where sources place the party (African National Congress)
Wikipedia: generally considered centrist to centre-left (African National Congress)
Ideology: developmental state, radical economic transformation

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She was Mayor of Ekurhuleni from 2008 to 2010, a Gauteng provincial minister, and Speaker of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 2014 to 2024. She is named among the ANC's possible mayoral candidates for Ekurhuleni in the 4 November 2026 local government elections.

Career

Mekgwe was born in 1964 near Nigel and joined the Congress of South African Students in the early 1980s. She was Mayor of Nigel from 1995 to 2000 and Speaker of the Ekurhuleni council from 2001 to 2008. She became Mayor of Ekurhuleni in July 2008. She served as Gauteng ANC provincial treasurer from 2010 to 2018, and in the provincial government as MEC for Social Development and Health from 2010 and for Local Government and Housing from 2012. She was Speaker of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from May 2014 to May 2024.

Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Daily Maverick · Wikipedia

Photo: US Embassy South Africa, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons (cropped)

  1. Ntombi Mekgwe 5%
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Mayor of Ekurhuleni (Germiston)?

OutcomeLeft – RightAgeProbability
Xolani KhumaloCentre-right36%
Jongizizwe DlabathiCentre23%
Khathutshelo RasilingwaneCentre3615%
Nthabiseng Tshivenga12%
Nomadlozi Nkosi9%
Nkosindiphile XhakazaCentre6%
Ntombi MekgweCentre615%
Thulani ShongweLeft2%
Pelisa NkunjanaCentre1%

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