Shocked: Tania Campbell, the DA's new mayor of Ekurhuleni.
The DA may be the biggest winner of the day, but this was also a brutal flexing of the muscles by the EFF to the ANC on the road to 2024, writes Adriaan Basson.
Let this sink in: In about 48 hours, the DA could be governing the five largest of South Africa's eight metropolitan municipalities.
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