JOHANNESBURG - The City of Tshwane is one of the major talking points as coalition talks take shape this week.
The DA finished first in the 2026 Local Government Elections, securing 74 seats, followed by ActionSA with 48 seats. Rounding off the top three was ANC with 44 seats.
In Tshwane, the overall majority needed to govern is 108 seats.
eNCA election analyst Wayne Sussman breaks down the numbers as he explores three coalition possibilities.
One option he looked at was a coalition between the DA and ANC.
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Together, the two parties would have 118 seats. That is a comfortable majority that would only need those two parties to govern.
Another scenario could be the ANC and ActionSA joining up, but that amounts to only 92 seats.
That means they would need other parties to reach the number needed to govern.
If they replicated the current setup and brought in the EFF's 13 seats, that would still leave them two seats short of a majority and needing another minor party to join the coalition.
Despite the bad blood between the two parties, a third possibility would be a coalition between ActionSA and the DA, who together would have a majority of 122 seats in council.