The ANC made a big statement in the final by-election before the 2024 national elections by winning more than 70% of the vote in a rural ward in the Bojanala Platinum District of North West. It was the second consecutive disappointing result for the uMkhonto Wesizwe party in an area of the coun.
This past week, Eyewitness News was in the North West, ahead of the elections, where Madibeng residents gave their accounts of what it is like to live in one of the country’s most poorly managed municipalities.
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The uMkhonto Wesizwe party continued from where it left off in its recent debut by-election by taking votes off the IFP, and now the ANC, to give both established parties a fright in a marginal IFP seat in uPhongolo, KwaZulu-Natal. The IFP took a seat off the ANC in Newcastle, while the Patriot.