Cllr Ronnie Veeran – eThekwini EXCO Member

Ronnie Veeran was born in Cato Manor on the 9 September 1957 and is the youngest in a family of ten children. Today Veeran is the longest serving Indian member of the DA and its predecessors in South Africa.

In 1975, he started work as a clerical assistant with the erstwhile Borough of Westville in the Town Treasurer’s Department and between 1997 and 2000 joined the Inner West City Council, completing 25 years of service in a municipal treasury. In 1996 he had to obtain special permission to stand as a candidate on the North Central Council and following that election he served as a DP PR Councillor until 2000. With all the substructures now forming part of the new unicity Metro Council Veeran had to choose between continuing as an employee at Inner West or standing as a councillor.

I’m happy with the Mayor pronunciation and his tough stance of cracking down on councilor and official doing business with the Municipality” he said.