The MK party's Thabiso Molefe wins Rustenburg ward, signalling voter frustration with the ANC's 2021 councillor selections.
MK party candidate Thabiso Molefe wins ANC stronghold in Rustenburg, reflecting voter dissatisfaction with the ANC's decision to remove community-nominated councillors in 2021.Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party won an ANC safe ward in its stronghold in Rustenburg in what some community members see as voters’ punishment for the ANC decision to remove community-chosen councillors in the 2021 local government elections.
The Kgalema Motlanthe electoral committee investigated the matter and recommended the list should be rectified, but some communities were not satisfied by the report’s implementation.But MK candidate Thabiso Molefe easily won the ward with a huge margin against ANC candidate Nomziwakhe Ntsoeu and Thabo Modimokwane of the EFF in Wednesday’s by-election.Molefe received 43% of the votes, against the ANC’s 33% and EFF 24% .
This gives the party two council seats in two provinces, even before it contests the 2026 local government elections, a clear indication that it would give the ANC a run for the money in the coming polls. With five more wards to be contested in the Platinum Belt in future by-elections, there is concern that MK could emerge once more as voter disgruntlement against the ANC had subsided since 2021.
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