BN Daybreak: Mining in SA not impossible; Joburg polling latest; what made Sir Wicknell tick?

South Africa. Johannesburg is standalone with the most number of parties which currently control wards. You have the DA, the ANC, Algemai Indonesia, the Patriotic Alliance, who control a number of wards, and the Incartha Freedom Party. This is more than any other metropolitan area in the country. We contrast that with Cape Town. I'll give you the answer. The Cape Town, after the 2021 election, was only two parties. It's now three parties.

Because the PA has a ward. Last week we spoke about Nelson and De La Bay. There it is only the ANC and the DA. So that number, that five parties currently control wards, tells a story of the fragmentation of Johannesburg politics. Well, I've had news for you. If one considers the 2024 results, there's a scenario that up to seven parties can win wards, including the EFF and McConto Eseswer. So Johannesburg, yes, is the most populous area, but it's

Also, the most competitive. But I want to now go and see what people's sentiments were to how well the municipality is run. And yeah, the largest number, extremely badly run, 40.7%, not being well run, 28%. Chris, when we combine these two negative numbers together, that is almost a 70% negative sentiment towards the current running.

Of the Johannesburg municipality. Only averagely well run, 21.3%, very well run, 7.9%. Essentially, on a margin of greater than 2.1%, the sentiment of the current running of the city of Johannesburg is very negative. And that's concerning for the ANC and its coalition partners. The next thing we want to see in the survey was who should be the mayor. Now, I'll be honest, I was a bit surprised by this because I thought hello.

Zillow would run ahead of the DA. In the ENCA Mark Data poll, she runs slightly behind the DA on about 31%. Herman Mashaba, ActionSA, his party only got 10% in the poll, but he is the second most popular candidate in the survey with 23.4%. And then we saw this last week, and that's important if you want to watch the Nelson Mandela Vea Crule interview with Chris Dane, watch that last week. Incumbents.

Do pretty well. And Dada Morero is the current mayor. He's running on 15.9%. Loiso Masuku, who's the number one in the ANC PR list, 3.9. And Bongani Baloyi, 3.7%. Sort of make one thing clear: is that Dr. Klalangmo Foking from the EFF had not been announced as the mayoral candidate. So the EFF didn't really feature here. The other EFF name was way down below. So, yes, Zilaza.