DA and Geordin Hill-Lewis declare victory in Cape Town with less than a quarter of votes counted

DA leader and Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has declared the party the winner in the Mother City The DA in the City of Cape Town (CoCt) has declared itself the outright winner in the metropolitan municipality. With just 24% of voting stations counted in the metro, party leader and mayoral candidate Geordin Hill-Lewis stated the party was on track to secure a comfortable majority. “Based on our own collection of all the data from all of the voting stations where you all worked late into last night and into this morning, we can now project that our results in the CoCT will be around 58%,” Hill-Lewis said. As of 12pm, 31% of all voting stations nationally had completed counting, with the ANC leading the DA by 32% to 27%. *This is a developing story