Bongani Baloyi
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Bongani Baloyi | |
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 Baloyi in 2019 | |
| President of Xiluva Founder of Xiluva | |
| In office 30 March 2023 – September 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Party founded |
| Succeeded by | Party dissolved |
| Provincial Chairman of ActionSA in Gauteng | |
| In office 8 May 2022 – 13 March 2023 | |
| President | Herman Mashaba |
| Preceded by | John Moodey |
| Executive Mayor of the Midvaal Local Municipality | |
| In office 29 August 2013 – 1 November 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Timothy Nast |
| Succeeded by | Peter Teixeira |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Bongani Michael Baloyi 28 February 1987 |
| Party | uMkhonto weSizwe (political party) (2024-present) |
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Bongani Michael Baloyi (born 28 February 1987) 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.
Baloyi was born on 28 February 1987 in the Thokoza township outside Alberton in the East Rand.[1] He took an interest in politics at a young age.[2] His grandmother is an active member of the African National Congress Women's League. In 1999, he and his newly-divorced mother Patricia, an entrepreneur, and two siblings moved to Daleside, Meyerton. Baloyi has two incompleted degrees: one in accounting and another one in Business Administration, which he plans to complete in 2022.[3]