DA well ahead in Cape Town

The City of Cape Town looks set to remain under the control of the Democratic Alliance (DA)‚ with the party holding 69‚65% of the vote in the metro.

This is according to the Independent Electoral Commission's results board early on Thursday morning.

The African National Congress (ANC) held 21‚51% of the metro's votes and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) held 3‚27%.

DA mayoral candidate Patricia de Lille had said on Wednesday that when she cast her vote it felt the same as it did when she first made her mark in 1994.

"The value of the vote‚ and of democracy‚ is something we must never take for granted‚" she said.

"I am so pleased to see that our democracy is beginning to stabilise and people are becoming more and more aware of the value of their vote. I have travelled the length and breadth of our country and I am so proud to be a South African‚" De Lille told journalists.

The DA also appears to be holding firmly onto power in the Western Cape with 66‚94% of the vote‚ compared with the ANC's 22‚45%.

With 14% of the votes counted the ANC was in the lead on the national map‚ however‚ with 50.9% of the votes. The DA held 34.27% of the vote and the EFF 5.67%.

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