ActionSA wins Dobsonville Ward 48 from the ANC
Ongoing: Elections Hot
ActionSA's Kgadi Mogatusi is projected to win Ward 48 in Dobsonville, Soweto. It is the first time the ANC has lost the ward, despite a major campaign by the DA.
ActionSA national chair Michael Beaumont said the party was winning wards because it chose candidates together with communities and community organisations. He said Soweto voters were responding to leader Herman Mashaba's track record and strong candidates. He also said the DA had more money than sense in these elections.
The DA candidate in the ward, Mandla Nyaqela, was an ActionSA candidate before he defected to the DA in February. Mashaba said Nyaqela was underperforming and that he welcomed his departure. Nyaqela said he did not like Mashaba's dictatorship.
In the 2021 local government election, the ANC won 49.5% of the vote in Ward 48 and ActionSA won 21.9%. The EFF took 15.7% and the DA 4.1%. ANC councillor Galebotse Mpotulo won the ward that year, and 59 parties are contesting Dobsonville now.
Beaumont said ActionSA offers proportional representation (PR) list spots to candidates who narrowly lose ward races. He said this motivates ward candidates.
Key facts
- Who
- Kgadi Mogatusi (ActionSA candidate projected to win Dobsonville Ward 48); Michael Beaumont (ActionSA national chair); Mandla Nyaqela (DA ward 48 candidate, former ActionSA candidate who defected to the DA in…); Herman Mashaba (ActionSA leader)
- When
- 5 November 2026
- Where
- Dobsonville, Soweto, City of Johannesburg
- Status
- Reported