Johnathan Paoli
The DA and coalition partner ActionSA is expected to go head-to-head again on Wednesday as by-elections take place across the country with Centurion’s Ward 64 expected to be a battleground between the two parties.
ActionSA said winning the Centurion ward from the DA would be a welcome development.
“If they give us a mandate to give us 20 councillors in total, an extra voice in terms of being a coalition partner with the DA, and that will assist the residents in making sure that whatever we promised them as a city that we deliver,” said ActionSA Gauteng chairperson Funzi Ngobeni.
Previously, the party had established the MAWIGA constituency in Tshwane, which is a combination of Mabopane, Winterveldt, Ga-Rankuwa, and Akasia, with the constituency currently containing 14 wards.
This follows a rocky relationship between the parties, with ActionSA critiquing the DA for its actions both in terms of the strikes in Tshwane as well as across the country, including the qualifications scandal in Cape Town.
ActionSA President Herman Mashaba urged residents of Ward 64 to come out and vote for Henriette Frohlich as the ward councillor.
Frohlich is an active member of the City of Tshwane council, caucus secretary and founding member of “Reading with ActionSA”, a literacy programme for youth, which claims to have proven to be 98% effective in addressing reading problems at various ages and ability levels.
There are five other municipalities that are set for by-elections and the IEC has said the other by-elections, in addition to Tshwane, are expected to take place in the provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga.
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