Tshwane voters want a new mayor: 67% say the city is not being turned around

Two in three Tshwane residents say the city is not being turned around and want a new mayor and a new governing majority, according to an eNCA MarkData election survey whose Tshwane results were published on 25 October 2026.

The poll asked whether the mayor and municipality had improved service delivery over the past five years. Just 22.2% answered that they had done as well as they could and deserved support. 67.2% said they were hopeless and that Tshwane needed a new mayor and a new governing majority. 9.3% did not know.

On water the verdict is similar. Asked whether the mayor and municipality had managed water supply challenges well over the past five years, 27.9% said yes and that they deserved support, while 62.6% said no and called for a different mayor and a different ruling majority. 8.2% did not know.

Asked how well their own municipality had been run over the past five years, 29.3% said it had not been well run and 27.2% said it had been extremely badly run. 27.1% called it only averagely well run and 11.9% said it had been very well run. 4.5% did not know.

The party numbers put the DA first in Tshwane on 33.9%, ahead of the ANC on 24.9%. The EFF sits on 12.3%, ActionSA on 10.7%, the FF+ on 7.9% and the MKP on 5.2%. The Patriotic Alliance is on 2.1%, the ACDP on 0.3%, Al Jama-ah on 0.1%, Rise Mzansi on 0.1% and the NCC on 0.4%. The IFP registered 0.0% and other parties 1.7%.

Asked who is mainly to blame for the poor running of South Africa’s big cities, with their problems over water, electricity, sewage, potholes and services, 62.5% named the ANC. The DA took 15.0%, the EFF 7.1%, the MKP 1.5% and smaller parties 3.0%. 10.9% did not know.

On the mayoral question, Nasiphi Moya is the most favoured candidate to lead the metro after the elections at 25.9%. Cilliers Brink follows on 20.1%, Eugene Modise on 13.5%, Obakeng Ramabodu on 10.2%, Tlangi Mogale on 9.5% and Willie Spies on 4.0%. 16.9% chose other.

The survey also put a question on the hostility directed at foreign workers in Tshwane and the attacks on foreigners reported in other parts of the country. Asked to choose one reason for the hostile feeling in Tshwane, 39.9% said people there are losing faith in the government’s ability to deal with the issue. 27.8% said Johannesburg residents are used to foreign workers but in Tshwane it is a more recent thing. 19.1% said people in Tshwane are particularly angry about the issue. 11.2% said the question was wrong and that there is not much hostile feeling towards foreigners in Tshwane, and 2.5% did not know.

The results are the Tshwane portion of the eNCA MarkData 2026 election poll. The survey’s sample size, fieldwork dates and margin of error were not carried in the published Tshwane results.