THE African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) will on Wednesday once again do battle in municipal ward by-elections taking place in five provinces including Limpopo and the Western Cape.Other by-elections are taking place in the Eastern Cape, Free State and KwaZulu-Natal.The Independent Electoral Commission has postponed a poll in one ward in KwaZulu-Natal, due to voter registration irregularities.The DA will be hoping to get the better of the ANC again in Limpopo when the party contests in two by-elections in the area. Earlier this year, the ANC lost a ward to the DA in Polokwane, Limpopo.The ANC in Limpopo has been struggling to get its house in order. An interim task team was appointed in March after the party disbanded the provincial executive committee led by Premier Cassel Mathale on charges of "patronage, factionalism and parallel structures"Ward 4 in Limpopo’s Mutale municipality will be contested by Thinawanga Pandelani of the ANC and Ambadzifhele Mud...
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