Smaller parties make inroads in Western Cape hinterland
Gains made by the smaller parties in platteland areas result in 14 hung councils around the province
02 November 2021 - 20:37
By early on Tuesday night, it appeared that smaller parties had made significant gains in the Western Cape, particularly in the rural hinterland.
But it was too early to deliver a verdict on their impact in Cape Town. At the time of going to press the DA had obtained 59.68% of the vote in the Mother City, the ANC 16.61% and the Cape Coloured Congress 4.23% with 21% of the vote counted, according to the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) results dashboard...
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