PROFILE: uMngeni mayor Chris Pappas is guarding his town’s backyard
For the young KZN mayor the prospects of political advancement were good, but he’s staying at home to fight
22 June 2023 - 05:00
Chris Pappas was a politician on the rise in 2021. He’d turned 30 in late August and was deputy provincial leader of the DA in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and mayoral candidate in local elections that year. He wasn’t given much chance of winning, even in the uMngeni municipality (Howick), where voters were showing signs of being fed up with the governing ANC’s failure to deliver services.
When he prevailed, the ANC refused to step aside, and Pappas needed to get a high court ruling to get its officials out. ..
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