The African National Congress retained all the three key positions in the City of Ekurhuleni‚ claiming their first and only remaining metro in Gauteng.The final vote saw ANC's Jongizizwe Dlabathi take the position of chief whip with 117 votes against Democratic Alliance's nominee Tanya Campbell who obtained 107 votes. Earlier‚ Mzwandile Masina took the position of executive mayor while Patricia Kumalo retained her position as speaker of council. Ekurhuleni‚ is the country's manufacturing hub with the country's biggest and busiest airport‚ OR Tambo.Masina will lead a municipality that has seen its fair share of difficulties in recent times‚ with Statistics SA revealing in May that Ekurhuleni was one of six out of the country's metros that lost the highest numbers of jobs in the first quarter of 2016.The metro lost 111 000 jobs‚ second only to eTthekwini in KwaZulu-Natal which lost 144 000.Under the leadership of former mayor Mondli Gungubele‚ the city has been able‚ in the last two financial years to obtain two clean audits‚ the only ANC-led metro to achieve this in Gauteng.It is the only metropolitan city that will be run by the ANC in Gauteng after the DA claimed Tshwane and Joburg in dramatic fashion.But the election did not go without drama. After the swearing in of councillors‚ the Economic Freedom Fighters challenged the secretary of council Nana Moloi on the validity of the IEC list which was used before voting.They demanded‚ with the support of the DA‚ that councillors produce their ID documents to prove that they were in deed the people listed on the IEC list. This was also fueled by the confusion about two councillors who shared the same surname.Moloi‚ who presided over the proceedings in the absence of outgoing city manager Khaya Ngema‚ ruled with the help of the IEC officials that the legislation did not require councillors to produce their ID documents.However‚ DA mayoral candidate Ghaleb Cachalia said the party would formally object to how the elections had been done.Elections then went ahead as planned and proceedings only ended at 6pm. This is a new era for the three metros in Gauteng.In the three‚ the EFF will for the first time have representatives and this could change how council business is conducted. Furthermore the general public will be interested to see how the EFF deals with DA-led local governments given the stark ideological difference between the two.After helping the DA dethrone the ANC in Tshwane‚ the EFF warned its partner for the day that it was not part of it and things would be different during going forward...