ANC retakes Joburg as DA coalition collapses
DA says new mayor is ‘tainted with corruption’, while EFF says the ANC’s return is a betrayal of the city's residents
04 December 2019 - 16:35
The collapse of the governing DA-led coalition in Johannesburg paved the way for the ANC to take back control of SA’s economic hub.
Less than two years before SA is set to go to the polls in the local government elections in 2021, the DA has lost the mayorship of two of the three metros it succeeded in winning via coalitions in 2016, when the ANC received a bloody nose from the electorate in Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela Bay and Tshwane, among others...
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