Midrand, South Africa, April 12, 2026 (AFP) - Cape Town mayor elected to lead S.Africa's second-largest party

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South Africa's second-largest party, the Democratic Alliance, elected Cape Town's mayor Sunday to lead it into the 2029 national polls, stepping up its drive to take votes away from the faltering ANC. The election of Geordin Hill-Lewis, 39, marks a reset for the centre-right DA that entered a multi-party coalition government in 2024 when the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority. "I am not satisfied being a junior partner in a coaliti......

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