Sean McLaughlin: View the coalition options in SA's municipalities

In the past local government elections. Look, Chris, I think South Africa has taken an enormous step forward in the last week or so with these elections for the better. Step forward towards being that incredibly vibrant, dynamic, emerging market that everybody knows that South Africa should be. You've cleared the hurdle of another free and fair election.

The dominant party has lost pretty significantly and has accepted the result. There's going to be very good outcomes in a lot of these councils. The ANC and the DA are going to find each other undoubtedly in some of these places. One overwhelming theme that has run through all of this is that voters have voted for good service delivery, where the ANC has done well in that sort of cluster of the Eastern Cape, they've been rewarded.

Where the DA has done well, they've been rewarded. Where the IFP has done well, they've been rewarded. And conversely, where consuls have performed very poorly and in many cases been under administration, you can almost track this identically. You can almost track this perfectly with whether or not the councils have been under administration. The ANC vote, the incumbent vote, has fallen very, very

Far. That was the story in M. Fuleni. That was the story in Mango and Bloemfontein. That was the story in Makana. Makhanda, formerly Gramston. Voters are voting with their feet for improved service delivery, exceptionally good result for the country. Even more reason to be bullish and optimistic. All South Africa going into the future. Thank you. That was Sean McLachlan of North Shira. Speaking to Bus News, I'm Chris Stain.