ActionSA wins Tembisa ward from the ANC
Ongoing: Elections Hot
ActionSA took Ekurhuleni's Ward 6 with 4,587 votes, or 38.84% of the vote, in last week's local government elections. It finished 6.2 percentage points ahead of the ANC, which won the ward with 64.3% in 2021.
Xolani Khumalo, ActionSA's Ekurhuleni mayoral candidate, is the councillor-elect for the ward. Reports described the ward as an ANC stronghold for the past two decades.
Fihliwe Nkohlisa, the ActionSA ward branch secretary, said the result reflects eight months of work to build the party's presence in the area. She said the party launched the ward in March with very few members. It now has more than 700 members in the ward.
Nkohlisa also said the previous administration did not seem to take residents' concerns to heart. Tembisa resident Thandiwe Dlokolo said that administration did not involve residents in community projects. She said it brought in people from outside Tembisa while locals stayed unemployed.
Dlokolo said residents are happy that Khumalo will be their councillor. She said he cares about people and always has.
Key facts
- Who
- Xolani Khumalo (ActionSA Ekurhuleni mayoral candidate and councillor-elect for Ward 6); Fihliwe Nkohlisa (ActionSA ward branch secretary); Thandiwe Dlokolo (Tembisa resident); Siyabonga Mnguni (unemployed Tembisa resident)
- What
- ActionSA secured 4,587 votes in Ekurhuleni Ward 6 (Tembisa), finishing 6.2 percentage points ahead of the ANC, which had won the ward with 64.3% in 2021. The party's mayoral candidate, Xolani Khumalo, is the councillor-elect.
- When
- 9 November 2026
- Where
- Tembisa, Ekurhuleni
- Status
- Reported