The Democratic Alliance in the Western Cape is confident that it will hold onto power in the province, as preliminary results released by the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) as at 6. 50am on Friday morning showed the blue party leading the polls.
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A meeting in April between King Mswati III and ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa at his Mahlamba Ndlopfu official residence in Pretoria sealed the deal for the ANC's former deputy president David Mabuza to join the campaign trail.