She is set to take over as mayor of Cape Town, the country's biggest city, where for the first time the DA won a majority of the vote.

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At the latest general election, in 2009, it got 66% of the vote (down from 70% the time before) against only 17% for the biggest opposition party, the liberal Democratic Alliance (DA), still seen by most blacks as an essentially white-led organisation.

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So the biggest shock out here this morning is why, in Kaufman, Texas, are we having an assistant DA get killed and an elected DA. It's really sending some shock waves through the community.

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