DA leader John Steenhuisen says his party’s goal for the 2021 local government election is to increase the support it received in the 2019 general election in places where it received a bloody nose from the electorate. 

The local government election, scheduled to be held later in 2021, will be the first election, with the exception of by-elections, for the DA since Steenhuisen took the reins of SA’s second-largest party late in 2020. ..

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