How a member of a minority party became mayor of SA’s largest city

South Africa's largest metro, which has about 6 million people and a budget of R77.3 billion, is in the hands of a minority party that has only three of the 270 council seats.

Al Jama-ah's provincial chair Thapelo Amad was installed as the executive mayor of the City of Johannesburg on Friday after the DA's Mpho Phalatse was booted out of office in a motion of no confidence on Thursday.

For the first time in South Africa's history, the City of Johannesburg is now run by a party of just three seats, and has a Speaker from a single-seat party - Cope’s Colleen Makhubele.