WATCH LIVE: ANC takes early lead in 8 provinces
The African National Congress (ANC) took an early lead in the local government elections with around 46% of the votes nationally.
However, this was from only from 6 municipalities out of 213 where vote counting was complete by Tuesday morning.
This means only 19% of the votes have been counted.
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The governing party’s largest number of votes came from the Northern Cape where it had secured 150 000 votes.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) was clinging to the Western Cape at over 306 000 votes.