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The election the cities didn’t see — rural South Africa rewrote our politics | SA News

Since Wednesday’s vote the national conversation has largely followed a familiar route: Who will govern Johannesburg? Can Tshwane hold a coalition together? What does the MK party’s showing in eThekwini mean for KwaZulu-Natal? These are all fair questions and must be asked. The metros are home to roughly four in 10 South Africans and much of the economy.

But South Africa has 257 municipal councils, and only eight of them are metros. The other six in 10 South Africans live in secondary cities, small towns, farming districts, and villages in former homelands. That is where the 2026 election did its most surprising work, and it is where much of our analysis has the least to say.

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