On the 4th of November 2026, South Africa is holding its municipal elections. Johannesburg, the city built on gold and still the economic hub of Sub-Saharan Africa, has found itself in a mayoral race caught between politicians' moral stance on the Middle East and their ability to fix a decimated, chronically underfunded infrastructure. Helen Zille is the Democratic Alliance's (DA) candidate for Johannesburg. In a system of proportional representation, the DA is the main liber