ANC holds on to Ward 43 in Nelson Mandela Bay by-election

The ANC in Nelson Mandela Bay has retained control of Ward 43. 

Mandlakazi Mabuda is the new ward councillor after the hotly contested by-election on Wednesday.

She replaces ANC councillor Andile Andries, who was killed alongside his assistant, Lubabalo Keso, in May. 

Preliminary results indicate that the ANC received 69,4% of the votes, followed by the EFF which received 16,7%.

ActionSA, which fielded its first ward candidate in the Eastern Cape, received 8%, the UDM 3,7%, Azapo 0,7%, AIM 0,2%, and the United Front 1,7%. 

On Thursday, Mabuda said that while Andries’s death had scared her, she believed the ANC would ensure she was safe. 

“The ward belonged to the ANC before and we [had] no worries at all. We know that people in the ward love the ANC,” Mabuda said. 

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