The party lost a ward to the ANC and showed declining support in two others in a reversal of gains made following two by-election victories last week.
By-elections were held in the Western Cape on Wednesday, providing what elections analyst Dawie Scholtz called the “first meaningful DA data post-Maimane”.While the DA held the Wesbank and Tafelsig municipalities, they showed a drop of 20% in Tafelsig and 17% in Wesbank, according to Scholtz.
According to Scholtz, these results look “a lot [exactly] like the trend before the Maimane/Mashaba resignations”. While Scholtz called the results a “disastrous”, Sussman ‘s response was milder, although both acknowledged the DA’s losses. The party’s Western Cape leader, Bonginkosi Madikizela, told EWN on Wednesday that victories in all three wards yesterday would have shown the public that the DA was back on track following the crises that have befallen the party in the past month, which included the resignations of members including former leader Mmusi Maimane, former federal chairperson Athol Trollip, and outgoing Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba.
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