By-elections contested in the Eastern and the Western Cape will be crucial for the Patriotic Alliance and ActionSA because both parties will be looking to prove they can maintain past electoral performances. | ZintleMahlati
By-elections were held in three provinces on Wednesday.
In Mpumalanga, a ward was contested in the Chief Albert Luthuli local municipality. In the Western Cape, the PA will be defending a previously-held ward in Matzikama.Elections monitoring analyst Wayne Sussman said the by-elections were crucial for the main political parties. The former mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay, Athol Trollip, who now leads ActionSA in the Eastern Cape, remains quite popular in the metro.
Sussman added that these by-elections was a test as to whether the EFF could continue with its winning streak against the ANC, as seen in previous by-elections. The elections also served as an opportunity for the ANC to prove that it was not on a decline in some areas, Sussman added.
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