00:00Good morning.
00:02South Africa's second largest party, the Democratic Alliance,
00:05elected Cape Town's Mayor Sunday to lead into the 2029 national poll,
00:11stepping up as a drive to the votes away from the faltering ANC.
00:16The election of the 39-year-old Jordan Hill-Louis,
00:19SDA leader, marks a reset for the centre-right and pro-business party
00:24that entered the multi-party coalition government in 2024.
00:28Hill-Louis has run Cape Town, a booming international tourist destination, since 2021.
00:35The DA was brought into the coalition government of the African National Congress Party,
00:40which led the fight against apartheid,
00:42lost its majority for the first time in three decades in power.
00:46The party of Nelson Mandela won 62% of votes in the first all-raised election in 1994,
00:53but managed only 40% at the 2024 polls,
00:57undermined by corruption, scandals and complaints of bad governance.
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