Wayne Susman: DA leads in 4 Metros, 2 to go…

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 Eswer. 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 here, the largest number, extremely bad.

Run 40.7%, not been 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 Helen Zille would run ahead of the DA. In the ENCA Mark Dayton 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 it's important if you want to watch the Nelson Madeleo Veakurni interview with Chris Dane, watch that last week. Incumbents do pretty well. And Dana Morero is the current mayor. He's running on 15.9%. Loiso Masuku, who's the number one in the ANCPR list, 3.9%. And Bongani Beloy, 3.7%.

Sort of make one thing clear: is that Dr. Klalangmo Fo King 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, Zille's out in front, but Mashaba will also be very, very happy. And then there are just two more questions: Has the mayor managed key infrastructure well, Chris? Again, a margin of more than two, two.

No, they are hopeless. Johannesburg needs a new mayor. 63%, more than double of yes done well. Again, when we go into the election in Johannesburg, Chris, the management of infrastructure, water, electricity, roads, street lights, the refuse removal, this is key. And Johannesburg residents are fundamentally dissatisfied. So that is it when it comes to Johannesburg. And I want to present Cape Town.