South Africa: DA Projected to Win 79 Percent in Ramaphosa and Malema's Joburg Home Ward

What the report says

Preliminary results in Johannesburg suggested the Democratic Alliance was headed for a strong showing in Ward 90 in Hyde Park, the suburb where President Cyril Ramaphosa and EFF leader Julius Malema live. According to the Daily Maverick report carried by AllAfrica, the DA was projected to win 79.4% of the vote there, while the ANC was at 4.6% and the EFF at 2.3%. The results were still provisional when the article was published on 5 November 2026.

The report said the DA’s wider gains in Johannesburg were helped by higher turnout in suburban areas. It also noted that no party was expected to win an outright majority in the city, leaving coalition talks to determine who governs next. Party leaders were quoted at the IEC’s results centre in Midrand, where discussions were expected to begin within days.

The piece said the possible outcomes could include either the DA’s Helen Zille or ActionSA’s Herman Mashaba becoming mayor. DA federal chairperson Ashor Sarupen argued the party with the most votes should lead, while the article also recalled that earlier coalition arrangements in Johannesburg had not always followed that approach. ActionSA’s national chairperson and chief negotiator, Michael Beaumont, said both the ANC and DA had approached the party, which claimed wins in 55 wards. The broader significance is that Johannesburg’s next governing alliance remains unsettled even as local ward results point to shifting urban support patterns.