The economic capital of South Africa is once again in mourning.
Johannesburg mayor Jolidee Matongo was killed in a car crash on Saturday just over a month after being elected, his cabinet said.
Jolidee Matongo, 46, was elected on August 10 as head of the city after the death of her predecessor from Covid-19.
On the move in Soweto
The accident, the circumstances of which have not been clarified, took place as the mayor returned from a campaign to encourage voter registration in the township of Soweto, ahead of the local elections on November 1 in South Africa.
"Nothing could prepare any of us for this sudden loss, which deprived the economic center of our nation of its second mayor in two months", reacted on Twitter the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who had accompanied Jolidee Matongo in Soweto.
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