By Paul Nyathi|The MDC Alliance national youth Organising Secretary Morgan Ncube has been elected as the Mayor of the new Beitbridge Town Council.

Ncube’s deputy will be Munyaradzi Chitsunge.

The MDC Alliance won all the six wards in the Beitbridge town council. The town has been a ZANU PF dominance since the coming together of PF ZAPU and ZANU in the 1987 Unity Accord.

Meanwhile, in Gwanda a lecturer at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Polytechnic Jastone Mazhala was also on Monday elected as the Mayor of the Municipality. His deputy is Ponolo Maphala also of the MDC Alliance.

Mazhala defeated outgoing ZANU PF Mayor Knowledge Ndlovu by 6 votes to 4 in an obvious result where the opposition MDC Alliance has six councillors against four for ZANU PF.