Can the DA still win the Western Cape?

The DA has admitted that its battle with Patricia de Lille has caused immense reputational damage, expected to result in lower voter confidence — especially in Cape Town, where De Lille was the face of the party during her tenure as mayor. But the party already has a plan to mitigate voter losses in the city, after it axed De Lille as mayor and further stripped her of her party membership yesterday?

Has the DA shot itself in the foot in the Western Cape? We ask Gareth van Onselen, Head of Politics and Governance at the Institute of Race Relations (IRR)