# ActionSA and the Patriotic Alliance won wards previously held by the ANC in yesterday’s by-elections. The PA’s Raymont Ismael Steenkamp won ward 29 in Johannesburg and the party’s Julian Alan Matthysen claimed victory in ward 6 in the Swellendam Local Municipality. ActionSA’s Moses Moumakwa won ward 7 in the Ramotshere Moiloa Local Municipality in Zeerust, North West. The ANC retained other wards in by-elections held in the Eastern Cape, Limpopo and the Western Cape.
PA and ActionSA take municipal wards from ANC in by-elections