Johannesburg’s acting city manager Floyd Brink and council speaker Nonceba Molwele have assured the metro’s 5-million residents that services will continue uninterrupted as the municipality comes to terms with the untimely death of mayor Jolidee Matongo.

Matongo, 46, died in a car accident on Saturday evening, hours after participating in a voter-registration drive in Soweto with President Cyril Ramaphosa ahead of local elections on November 1...

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