Fight for Gauteng metros intensifies as election day looms

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Fight for Gauteng metros intensifies as election day looms
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DA provincial leader Solly Msimanga accompanied various party mayoral candidates in the three metros of Joburg, Ekurhuleni and Tshwane as well as Tyrone Gray of Mogale City and Peter Teixeira of Midvaal.

THE DA in Gauteng has intensified its bid to retain control of the City of Tshwane while also aiming at garnering majority votes in the City of Joburg and Mogale City Local Municipality in Krugersdorp.

The party also wants to retain its control of the Midvaal Local Municipality in Meyerton in the Vaal and it is the only municipality which has been under the sole DA control for more than a decade. Yesterday, DA provincial leader Solly Msimanga accompanied various of his party mayoral candidates in the three metros of Joburg, Ekurhuleni and Tshwane as well as Tyrone Gray of Mogale City and Peter Teixeira of Midvaal. Msimanga and various of his mayoral candidates visited various retirement villages in the respective towns of Gauteng to assist with special votes. The mayoral candidates also visited on their own various voting stations to monitor whether the voting was proceeding smoothly.

One of the contestant, his former City of Joburg mayor Herman Mashaba - who together with Phalatse will be voting at the same voting station in Sandton on Monday. Phalatse used to serve as City of Joburg’s MMC for Health and Social Development while Mashaba was mayor. The DA’s mayoral candidates are expected to visit various congregations today ahead of voting on Monday.

Msimanga, however, had mixed feelings about his campaign and special votes conducted by the Electoral Commission .

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