Preliminary results from yesterday's local government elections in South Africa, show that the African National Congress has secured six seats, five in the Northern Cape and one in Mpumalanga provinces. Also in the Northern Cape, the Patriotic Alliance has secured 2 seats and the DA one. Action SA has secured a seat in Laingsburg in the Western Cape. The IEC has cautioned that these remain very early results and that the electoral landscape could change significantly as more voting districts are processed through the night. For more on this, we are joined on the line by Dr Jabu Mtsweni, he is the Executive Cluster Manager at the CSIR NextGen Enterprises and Institutions cluster and a chief researcher

<p>Preliminary results from yesterday's local government elections in South Africa, show that the African National Congress has secured six seats, five in the Northern Cape and one in Mpumalanga provinces. Also in the Northern Cape, the Patriotic Alliance has secured 2 seats and the DA one. Action SA has secured a seat in Laingsburg in the Western Cape. The IEC has cautioned that these remain very early results and that the electoral landscape could change significantly as more voting districts are processed through the night. For more on this, we are joined on the line by Dr Jabu Mtsweni, he is the Executive Cluster Manager at the CSIR NextGen Enterprises and Institutions cluster and a chief researcher</p>