The ANC will be going all out to win the six outstanding wards where it claims it has majority support.
The ANC has won two of the three wards contested in Wednesday’s by-elections in the Potchefstroom-based Tlokwe local municipality.
As Tlokwe residents elect three new municipal councillors, EFF members have focused on the two wards contested by independent candidates.
Minister of International Relations and Co-operation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane has ordered an audit of irregular expenditure of R500-million.
The party has pulled out all the stops to win votes, including luring over opposition candidates, writes Mmanaledi Mataboge.
SA soldiers may be caught in the middle should the country hold DRC to account. Mmanaledi Mataboge reports.
The M23 rebels have written to the UN secretary general saying they are not responsible for the DRC war, adding the UN body Monusco is to blame.
A divided Cosatu is gearing up for an alliance showdown over the National Development Plan.
As soldiers get wounded in fighting, the M23 rebel group says South Africa has been duped by DRC President Joseph Kabila.
None of the 14 former North West ANC councillors reinstated as party members over the weekend appear on the ANC’s list of by-election candidates.