City of Johannesburg chief whip Solly Mogase was paying tribute to Matongo at his memorial service at the Joburg Old Council Chambers on Tuesday.
The Johannesburg mayor died in a car crash on Saturday evening while travelling on the Golden Highway.
Jolidee Matongo died in a car crash on Saturday evening while travelling on the Golden Highway.
The mayor died in a car crash on Saturday evening while travelling on the Golden Highway.
Matongo, an African National Congress (ANC) member and the former finance MMC in the metro, replaces Geoff Makhubo, who died of COVID-19 complications last month.
Matongo was elected unopposed during a special sitting earlier on Tuesday.
Eyewitness News has seen a letter from the party's deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte to Gauteng provincial secretary Jacob Khawe informing him that the party's top officials had approved of Matongo being nominated to fill the vacant post.
A statement from the mayor’s office said on Sunday that Makhubo was in self-quarantine.
Johannesburg Mayor Geoff Makhubo said they had also called on bars, nightclubs, taverns and restaurants to stop operations.
Makhubo says Herman Mashaba’s administration is to blame for the billions it’s owed in uncollected revenue.
Geoff Makhubo clinched 137 of the 268 votes cast in the Johannesburg Council on Wednesday afternoon. He takes over the mayoral chains from Herman Mashaba who recently resigned.
The names of the Economic Freedom Fighters' (EFF) Musa Novela, the African National Congress' (ANC) Geoff Makhubo and the Democratic Alliance's (DA) Funzela Ngobeni are on the ballot paper for the post of executive mayor.
If no winner emerges from the first round of mayoral elections, the candidate with the lowest votes will be eliminated, and a runoff will decide the winner.
The DA maintains there is no vacuum in Johannesburg while the city awaits the election of a new mayor next Wednesday.
On Thursday, Joburg council speaker Vasco da Gama postponed the election of the mayor to next week, saying he needed to seek legal advice on determining a majority.
Speaker Vasco da Gama postponed the election saying he would seek legal advice on the actual number of votes that make a majority.
Following former City of Joburg mayor Herman Mashaba's resignation, the election of the new mayor was postponed following confusion on the interpretation of “majority vote”.
Herman Mashaba resigned last month, citing that he couldn't reconcile himself with a group of people that thought race was irrelevant.
