11 Facts About Thabo Manyoni

Thabo Manyoni is a South African politician who was the Mayor of Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality from 2011 to 2016.

Thabo Manyoni represented his party, the African National Congress, in the Free State Executive Council from 2009 to 2011 and in the National Assembly from 2016 to 2017.

Thabo Manyoni was Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the ANC's Free State branch from 2008 to 2017.

Thabo Manyoni was Chairperson of the South African Local Government Association from 2011 to 2016 and in 2019 he was appointed to a five-year term as Chairperson of South Africa's Municipal Demarcation Board.

Thabo Manyoni left the Executive Council after the 2011 local government elections, in which he was elected Executive Mayor of the new Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality; he was succeeded as MEC by Butana Komphela.

Thabo Manyoni resigned from Parliament less than a year into his tenure, in May 2017.

Thabo Manyoni said that he had been involved in "supporting wrong things", such as vote-rigging, while he was Magashule's deputy, but that he had since had a Damascus moment.

However, when the next provincial elective conference was held in December 2017, Thabo Manyoni boycotted it, alleging that there had been irregularities in the electoral process.

Thabo Manyoni was succeeded as Deputy Provincial Chairperson by Paseka Nompondo.

The provincial leadership corps elected in 2017 was dissolved by the ANC's National Executive Committee and Thabo Manyoni was appointed as a member of the interim committee established to lead the provincial party until fresh elections could be held.

Thabo Manyoni promised to vacate his seat on the board if and when he won election to the ANC office.