The enormous scale of the political changes sweeping across SA will sink in only once the real business of governing begins in the three prized metros snatched from the ANC in the dramatic finish to the 2016 local government elections.Once a one-province party, the DA now governs half SA’s metros across three provinces: Tshwane and Johannesburg in Gauteng, Nelson Mandela Bay in the Eastern Cape and Cape Town in the Western Cape.In a heated meeting of the Johannesburg city council on Monday, the DA’s Herman Mashaba was crowned mayor of the city, with a budget of R54.8bn, underlining the ANC’s steep decline in support in the local polls.Mashaba, a businessman who founded hair product company Black Like Me, was elected three days after the DA’s Solly Msimanga took charge in Tshwane and after the party’s Athol Trollip was sworn in as mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay.It was all made possible for the official opposition through a decision by the EFF to vote with the party for key posts in the ...
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