MUNICIPAL
NEWS POLOKWANE MUNICIPALITY
John Mpe Re-elected as New Mayor of Polokwane Mpe replaced Thembi Nkadimeng as Mayor of Polokwane, three weeks after Nkadimeng resigned to be redeployed as the Deputy Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s cabinet reshuffle.
Executive Mayor Cllr. Mose Mpe
John Mpe, Chairperson of the ANC Peter Mokaba Region in Limpopo, has been re-elected unopposed as the Executive Mayor of Polokwane Municipality. The inauguration ceremony took place at the Ngoake Ramatlhodi Indoor Sports Complex in Seshego, outside of Polokwane.
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Municipal Focus
During his time as Capricorn District Municipality Mayor, John Mpe, achieved three consecutive unqualified audits and two clean audit opinions by the Auditor General. Mpe vouches, that under his leadership as District Mayor of Polokwane, he will work on the City’s poor audit outcome and avoid its fruitless and wasteful expenditure. He hopes to make Polokwane, which is the biggest, richest and the most influential municipality in the province, “the first Metro of the Limpopo Province.”
Mpe has nine years of past banking experience, where he focused on credit assessment, product marketing and credit control; and has worked in local governments and gained experience focusing on supply chain management, operations management, and monitoring and evaluating projects. He has a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, a Bachelors Degree in
John Mpe left Capricorn District Municipality with a clean audit and now vows to work on Polokwane’s poor audit outcomes and avoid fruitless expenditure.
