EXCLUSIVE: ANC, DA Neck-And-Neck One Year Out of Critical Local Government Poll
Marius Roodt
– November 19, 2025
2 min read
The Common Sense can exclusively reveal brand-new polling data showing that the DA and the ANC are only points apart a year ahead of SA’s definitive local government elections, that South African voters now believe the DA governs better than the ANC, that Patrice Motsepe is the preferred candidate to succeed Cyril Ramaphosa as president, and more than half of ANC voters want Ramaphosa to serve a third term.

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