Councillor Peter Teixeira | |
---|---|
![]() Teixeira in 2021 | |
Executive Mayor of the Midvaal Local Municipality | |
Assumed office 15 November 2021 | |
Preceded by | Bongani Baloyi |
Personal details | |
Nationality | South African |
Political party | Democratic Alliance |
Peter Teixeira is a South African Democratic Alliance politician who is the Executive Mayor of the Midvaal Local Municipality.
Teixeira joined the Democratic Alliance in 2014. During his time as a ward councillor,he served in three mayoral committee (MMC) posts and became the DA's constituency leader in Midvaal. [2] After then Midvaal mayor Bongani Baloyi announced he would be stepping down at the next election,in September 2021 Teixeira was selected to replace him as the DA's candidate in the November municipal elections. [3] Teixeira won with an increased majority. [4] He was elected mayor on 15 November 2021. [5]
Midvaal Municipality is a local municipality within the Sedibeng District Municipality,in the Gauteng province of South Africa. The municipality's name references its geographical location in-between the Johannesburg and East Rand areas and the Vaal and Vereeniging areas.
Roland Athol Price Trollip is a South African politician and provincial chairman of ActionSA in the Eastern Cape. He was previously a member of the Democratic Alliance (DA),serving as the Federal Chairperson of the DA from 2015 to 2019 and the Executive Mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality,serving from 2016 until he was unseated in a vote of no confidence in 2018.
Stevens Mokgalapa is a South African politician who served as the Mayor of Tshwane from 2019 to 2020. A former member of the Democratic Alliance (DA),he served as a Member of the National Assembly from 2009 to 2019. Within the DA's Shadow Cabinet,he served as Shadow Deputy Minister of International Relations and Co-operation from 2009 to 2012,as Shadow Minister of Human Settlements from 2012 to 2014 and as Shadow Minister of International Relations and Co-operation from 2014 to 2019.
John Henry Steenhuisen is a South African politician who has served as the twentieth leader of the Opposition since October 2019 and has been the leader of the Democratic Alliance since November 2020,having served as the interim leader for one year from November 2019. He was chief whip of the official opposition from May 2014 until October 2019.
Solly Tshepiso Msimanga is a South African politician serving as the Leader of the Opposition in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since May 2019. He has been a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature since February 2019,having previously served from 2014 to 2016. Msimanga was the Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality from 2016 to 2019 and the DA Provincial Chairperson from 2014 to 2017. He is currently the Democratic Alliance's Gauteng Premier candidate for the 2024 elections. Msimanga was the party's unsuccessful candidate for the 2019 elections.
Bennet Mzwenqaba Bhanga,known as Nqaba Bhanga,is a South African politician. He is the former Leader of the Official Opposition in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature,the former Provincial Leader of the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Eastern Cape,a former Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay,a former Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Human Settlements in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality,a former member of Parliament,and the DA's former Shadow Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA).
Mongameli Bobani was a South African politician and lawyer. He served as the Executive Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality from August 2018 until December 2019. He was previously the Deputy Executive Mayor and the Member of Mayoral Committee for Public Services.
Mark Willemse is a South African politician serving as the Deputy Mayor of the Knysna Local Municipality since 2021. He is the former Executive Mayor of Knysna,and former Ward Councillor for Ward 9. Having taken office in June 2018 after voting with the ANC to unseat Mayor Eleanore Bouw-Spies,he lost the confidence of his caucus and was dismissed in October 2019. His application to court to overturn his dismissal was dismissed,with costs,in March 2020. Willemse was previously Speaker of the Eden District Municipality.
The 2021 South African municipal elections were held on 1 November 2021,to elect councils for all district,metropolitan and local municipalities in each of the country's nine provinces. It is the sixth municipal election held in South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994,held every five years. The previous municipal elections were held in 2016. On 21 April 2021,President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the elections will be held on Wednesday,27 October 2021. It had been recommend by Dikgang Moseneke to delay the municipal elections until 2022. The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) requested the Constitutional Court to support the date postponement. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) supported the date postponement while the Democratic Alliance (DA) was against the postponement of the date. The Constitutional Court dismissed the application to postpone the date until 2022,ruling that they had to take place between 27 October and 1 November. On 9 September 2021,the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs,Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma announced that the elections would be held on 1 November.
Moloantoa Geoffrey Makhubo was a South African politician who served as the Mayor of Johannesburg from December 2019 until his death from COVID-19 in July 2021. He was a member of the African National Congress and the party's regional chair. During the administration of Parks Tau,he served as the MMC for Finance.
Bongani Michael Baloyi is a South African politician. In 2013,he was elected Executive Mayor of the Midvaal Local Municipality. He was only 26 years old at the time,and he consequently became the youngest mayor in South Africa. From 2011 to 2013,he was the MMC for Development and Planning in the municipality.
Andrew Grant Whitfield is a South African politician who has been the Shadow Minister of Police since 2019 and a Member of the National Assembly for the Democratic Alliance since 2019 and previously from 2014 to 2016. Having served as the provincial chairman of the DA in the Eastern Cape from 2017 to 2023,he is currently the provincial leader of the party and the leader of the party's Tsitsi-Kouga Constituency. Whitfield had previously served on the Nelson Mandela Bay city council and in the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature.
Christopher "Chris" John Pappas is a South African politician who is the mayor of the uMngeni Local Municipality. A member of the Democratic Alliance,he served as party's deputy provincial leader from 2021 until 2023. Pappas served as a member of the eThekwini city council from 2016 until 2019 and as a DA Member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature from 2019 to 2021.
Randall Williams is a South African politician and attorney who served as the Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality from October 2020 until February 2023. Previously,he served as the Member of the Mayoral Committee (MMC) for Economic Development and Spatial Planning and as the Chairperson of Municipal Appeals Tribunal between 2016 and 2019. Williams is a member of the Democratic Alliance.
Maliyakhe Lymon Shelembe is a South African politician. Shelembe was an Inkatha Freedom Party member until 2011. He was elected to the National Assembly in 2014 as a member of the National Freedom Party. Shelembe became a Democratic Alliance MP after the 2019 elections.
Jolidee Matongo was a South African politician who served as the mayor of Johannesburg from 10 August 2021 until his death on 18 September 2021. Prior to his election as mayor,he served as the member of the mayoral committee (MMC) for finance under his predecessor,Geoff Makhubo,who died from COVID-19 complications. Matongo was a member of the African National Congress.
Nicholas Georg Myburgh is a South African farmer,lawyer and politician for the Democratic Alliance. He has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 2021. Myburgh had previously served as the Executive Mayor of the Swellendam Local Municipality from 2011 to 2021.
Mpho Louisa Phalatse is a South African medical doctor and politician who was the Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. A member of the Democratic Alliance,she served in the position from 22 November 2021 until her ousting in a motion of no-confidence on 26 January 2023. She is the first woman to serve as mayor of the metropolitan municipality,which was established in 2000. She is the first black woman to serve as mayor of the city of Johannesburg and only the second female mayor of the city after Jessie McPherson,who served from 1945 to 1946.
Horatio Hendricks is a South African politician and former educator who has been a member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature since 2023. He previously served as the Speaker of the Kouga Local Municipality from 2016 to 2018 and then as mayor of the municipality from 2018 until 2023. Hendricks is a member of the Democratic Alliance (DA).
Marlene van Staden was a South African politician who was the mayor of the Modimolle–Mookgophong Local Municipality from 2016 to 2023. She was a member of the Democratic Alliance.