ANC suffers electoral setbacks as ActionSA wins Diepkloof Ward 27
ActionSA unseated the ANC in Ward 27, while the Patriotic Alliance defeated the party in Ward 29 by just 83 votes.
The ANC has managed to win three of Diepkloof’s five wards, including Wards 24, 26 and 28, while ActionSA won Ward 27 and the Patriotic Alliance claimed Ward 29.
This follows after voters went out to elect their preferred leaders during the 2026 Local Government Elections (LGE) on November 4.
Of the three 2021 ANC incumbent councillors who contested the 2026 LGE, two managed to retain their respective wards.
The councillors include Siyakudumisa Makaula (Ward 24), Sithembiso Mashinini (Ward 26) and Godfrey Jerry Tshehlo-Meti (Ward 27).
The Ward 27 ANC incumbent, Godfrey Jerry Tshehlo-Meti, lost to ActionSA’s Zandile Dabula.
In Wards 28 and 29, the two ANC councillors, Peter Ndou (Ward 28) and Brenda Happy Dammie (Ward 29), did not rerun.
The ANC fielded Mbuyiseni Mngomezulu in Ward 28 and Edward Prince Motlhabi in Ward 29.
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The Patriotic Alliance won Ward 29, with incoming Raymont Ismael Steenkamp obtaining 25.30% (1 685 votes). He won with a margin of 83 votes against the ANC’s Motlhabi, who got 24.06% (1 602 votes).
Ward 24 – Freedom Park, Devland (part), Goldev, Doornkop Military Base and Klipspruit Treatment Works
• Siyakudumisa Makaula – ANC (2 332 votes)
• Vulani Solly Mashele – ActionSA (1 282 votes)
• Gift Mashudu Ngwenya – Democratic Alliance (872 votes)
• Bethuel Njabulo Zungu – uMkhonto Wesizwe Party (781 votes)
• Muziwandile Welcome Majola – Economic Freedom Fighters (641 votes)
Ward 26 – Motsoaledi, Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Diepkloof Zones 5 and 6 and Power Park
• Sithembiso Mashinini – ANC (2 426 votes)
• Sibongiseni Cyric Khoza – Inkatha Freedom Party (1 701 votes)
• Nonceba Tshabalala – ActionSA (1 029 votes)
• Pearl Radebe – uMkhonto Wesizwe Party (1 008 votes)
• Tabisa Anthea Mogapi – Economic Freedom Fighters (824 votes)
Ward 27 – Nasrec, Ormonde View, Aeroton, Crown Mine (part), Diepkloof Zone 4 and Diepkloof Zone 5
• Zandile Dabula – ActionSA (3 143 votes)
• Godfrey Jerry Tshehlo-Meti – ANC (2 942 votes)
• Thabiso Mollo – EFF (1 472 votes)
• Peter Mamabolo – Democratic Alliance (971 votes)
• Kgosi Isaac Moiloa – uMkhonto Wesizwe Party (585 votes)
Ward 28 – Diepkloof Zones 1 and 2
• Mbuyiseni Mngomezulu – ANC (2 472 votes)
• Andrew Oupa Menyuku – ActionSA (2 105 votes)
• Charlote Mayenda – uMkhonto Wesizwe Party (704 votes)
• Phindile Nomahlubi Qwetha – Democratic Alliance (671 votes)
• Independent candidates (combined) (563 votes)
Ward 29 – Noordgesig, Diepkloof Zone 3 and Crown Mine (part)
• Raymont Ismael Steenkamp – Patriotic Alliance (1 685 votes)
• Edward Prince Motlhabi – ANC (1 602 votes)
• Monira Mashigo – ActionSA (1 027 votes)
• Joseph Christian Williams – Democratic Alliance (851 votes)
• Lukhanyo Mguye – Economic Freedom Fighters (429 votes)
