{
  "id": 19369077,
  "title": "Emfuleni hung council: DA promises to prioritise residents",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/emfuleni-hung-council-da-promises-to-prioritise-residents",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-10T17:22:17.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "SABC News",
    "slug": "sabc-news",
    "url": "https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/emfuleni-hung-council-da-promises-to-prioritise-residents/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Democratic Alliance (DA) has declared their commitment to prioritising residents in the embattled Emfuleni Municipality, even as the municipality heads towards a hung council. Kingsol Tshabalala, the DA's mayoral candidate for Emfuleni, revealed that despite the municipality's precarious political situation, his party will leave no stone unturned to improve the lives of local communities.\n\nThe DA, which had eight wards before the elections, secured twenty-six wards from the African National Congress (ANC) traditional strongholds in the Vaal. The party won thirty-seven out of ninety seats in the council, outpacing the ANC's 22. Tshabalala acknowledged the immense task ahead to transform the municipality's fortunes. He stated that the party is determined to turn the municipality around and ensure that Emfuleni becomes a government that works for all its communities.\n\nThe DA has vowed to end the chaos and bring services that the residents have been deprived of for too long. They promise to change the municipality for the better, ensuring that the needs of residents are given the utmost priority.",
  "summary": "Tshabalala says they are aware of the work ahead to change the fortunes of the municipality",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}