Cilliers Brink put forward as Tshwane mayoral candidate

Williams resigned following adverse findings by the auditor-general’s office. 

The city’s Finance MMC Peter Sutton has been installed as acting mayor in the interim. 

 Brink is the party's national spokesperson and regional chairperson in Gauteng North. 

He served as a councillor in Tshwane from 2011 to 2019. 

In Tshwane, he served as a member of the mayoral committee for Corporate and Shared Services from 2016 to 2019. 

Brink currently serves as a member of Parliament where he also served in the portfolio committee of cooperative governance and traditional affairs (CoGTA) since his election to Parliament in 2019. 

In a statement released on Tuesday, coalition partners said they support the DA’s choice of candidate. 

"The meeting involved the requisite consultation, in which coalition partners expressed their qualified support for the DA’s proposed candidate,” they said.   

The qualification of support related to the incoming Mayor-elect related to the need to see turnarounds in specific issues like the Rooiwal Wastewater Treatment Plant as well as pressing service delivery issues impacting communities like Hammanskraal, Soshunguve, and Mamelodi to name a few. 

“Ultimately, after ventilating these issues of concern, the multi-party coalition expressed its support for Brink as the candidate who will receive our collective support,” they noted.  

They added: “The focus of the meeting shifted swiftly to address the election of the new Mayor and the need to stabilise the coalition government to the benefit of service delivery to the residents of Tshwane." 

DA Gauteng provincial leader, Solly Msimanga says the party hopes Brink is elected at the first available opportunity. 

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