Election analyst Wayne Sussman says this was a breakthrough election for the DA and ActionSA, and a bad one for the ANC. He told Rob Rose from the Financial Mail and Zukile Majova from Scrolla Africa that the ANC ended on about 31% and the DA on about 25%, a gap of only six points, down from 24 points in 2021. He says the ANC lost voters to many parties at once, and that more than 130 councils are now hung.
On Joburg, Sussman says a DA and ActionSA deal would give the two parties enough seats, but there is a lot of bad blood between them. He has changed his mind in recent days and now thinks a DA and ANC deal is the most likely outcome, partly because of KwaZulu-Natal. He does not see how the DA can drop Helen Zille. He also says MK did not do as well as many expected, and that Jacob Zuma’s absence from the campaign trail hurt it.
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