Thabo Manyoni
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Thabo Manyoni | |
|---|---|
| Executive Mayor of Mangaung | |
| In office 2011–2016 | |
| Preceded by | Playfair Morule |
| Succeeded by | Olly Mlamleli |
| Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the African National Congress in the Free State | |
| In office 2008–2017 | |
| Chairperson | Ace Magashule |
| Preceded by | Pat Matosa |
| Succeeded by | Paseka Nompondo |
| Member of the Free State Executive Council for Police, Roads and Transport | |
| In office 2009–2011 | |
| Premier | Ace Magashule |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Butana Komphela |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 January 1960 |
| Party | African National Congress |
Thabo Manyoni is a South African politician who was the Mayor of Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality from 2011 to 2016. He represented his party, the African National Congress (ANC), in the Free State Executive Council from 2009 to 2011 and in the National Assembly from 2016 to 2017. He was Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the ANC's Free State branch from 2008 to 2017. He was also Chairperson of the South African Local Government Association from 2011 to 2016 and in 2019 he was appointed to a five-year term as Chairperson of South Africa's Municipal Demarcation Board.
Manyoni was born on 1 January 1960.[1] He has a Bachelor of Arts degree.[1] After 1994, he held various jobs in post-apartheid public administration, including in the Free State Tourism Board and the Maluti-a-Phofung Local Municipality.[1] By 2008, he was the municipal manager at the Free State's Mangaung Local Municipality.[1] He was suspended from that position in 2008;[2] according to the Mail & Guardian, his suspension was spearheaded by the incumbent Mayor of Mangaung, Gertrude Mothupi.[3]
At the same time, Manyoni was an active member of the African National Congress (ANC). His local branch of the ANC is in the Free State's Motheo region.[1] In July 2008, while he was in court challenging his suspension from the Mangaung municipality,[3] he was elected unopposed as Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the ANC's Free State branch, under Provincial Chairperson Ace Magashule.[4]
Career as a public representative
Executive Council: 2009–2011
Pursuant to the April 2009 general election, Magashule was elected Premier of the Free State and appointed Manyoni to the Free State Executive Council, where he became Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Police, Roads and Transport.[5]
Mayor of Mangaung: 2011–2016
Manyoni left the Executive Council after the 2011 local government elections, in which he was elected Executive Mayor of the new Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality; he was succeeded as MEC by Butana Komphela.[6] In September of that year, he was elected National Chairperson of the South African Local Government Association (SALGA).[1]
He was also re-elected unopposed to his party office as ANC Deputy Provincial Chairperson – indeed, he was re-elected twice, because the 2012 party elective conference was nullified by a court and rerun in May 2013.[7] The following year, he was shortlisted for the City Mayors Foundation's World Mayor Prize.[8][9]
However, ahead of the 2016 local government elections, the ANC announced that Manyoni would not stand for a second term as mayor; instead, the party's mayoral candidate in Mangaung would be MEC Olly Mlamleli. Manyoni said he was surprised by the announcement.[10]
National Assembly: 2016–2017
In September 2016, the ANC announced that it had adjusted its party list and would send Manyoni to the National Assembly, the lower house of the national Parliament of South Africa, to fill the next casual vacancy that arose.[11] He was sworn into a seat in early October.[12] At the same time, he resigned his SALGA office, which was taken up in an acting capacity by former Johannesburg Mayor Parks Tau.[12] Manyoni resigned from Parliament less than a year into his tenure, in May 2017.[13]