On an otherwise strong night for the ANC where it won back two seats from independents, and posted significant improvements in a rural KwaZulu-Natal and a rural Eastern Cape contest, the party lost a seat to the IFP in Mthonjaneni. The IFP had good returns in the two marginal seats it was defen.
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In four by-elections this week, the DA and the IFP had important holds with the DA retaining its seats in Tshwane and Modimolle, while the IFP had to fend off a serious challenge from the ANC in uMvoti.
The EFF and ActionSA may have come up just short in Soweto, but in nearby Rand West City (Bekkersdal) the former shocked the ANC, while in the town of Carnarvon in the Northern Cape the DA took a ward off the ANC in a high-turnout by-election.