The Democratic Alliance has outwitted the governing African National Congress in the Tshwane metro, DA leader Mmusi Maimane said on Friday evening.
“I’m quite glad to announce the fact that here in the City of Tshwane, by all our current projections, certainly we will be the largest party and therefore I want to congratulate the DA for having successfully beat the ANC here in Tshwane,” Maimane told a huge scrum of local and international media at the Electoral Commission of South Africa’s (IEC) national results operations centre in Tshwane.
“We will soon be working hard to form the government right here. I want to congratulate Solly Msimanga for having run an exceptional campaign. He has been everywhere and the people of Tshwane have expressed a view.”
Journalists quizzed Maimane why he was making the announcement before the final tally of results but he stuck to his guns.
“We have been waiting for most of today. I’m not giving you the full briefing now of all the election results. There are still many more to come from places like Johannesburg and other places we are looking at where the ANC could dip below 50 percent,” said Maimane.
“How does this undermine the IEC? I don’t see anything untoward.”
The IEC was holding a briefing soon after Maimane’s engagement with the media.
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