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African Content Movement (ACM) leader Hlaudi Motsoeneng is being approached by other political parties in the council to take over from ANC mayor Malekula Melato.
2026 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

ACM leader Hlaudi Motsoeneng being lobbied for Maluti-a-Phofung mayor role

Motsoeneng says he wants to “take over properly” as coalition talks continue in the troubled Maluti-a-Phofung municipality

  • Lunga Mzangwe
4 min read
At least 99 voters have deregistered from the Independent Electoral Commission’s (IEC) voter’s roll in the Free State over the past year. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
2021 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS

ANC cries sabotage as 99 voters deregister from IEC’s Free State roll amid R7000 bribery allegations

Most people usually simply stay away on voting day

  • Lunga Mzangwe
8 min read
The hole nine yards: Pothholed roads and a fallen electric pole, which took more than a month to be repaired. (Lunga Mzangwe/M&G)
ACM

No services, no jobs, as businesses flee Free State municipality

Wrangling in the ANC, incompetence and corruption have brought the council close to collapse

  • Lunga Mzangwe
10 min read
In a media statement, 35 smaller parties have demanded that an independent audit, which is “not affiliated and captured by government”, be conducted. They also want the election to be rerun.(Oupa Nkosi/M&G)
ACM

Smaller political parties cry foul

Smaller parties say they got zero votes, even at stations where they voted, amid other complaints about the election process.

  • Mashadi Kekana
2 min read
Taking advantage of local communities’ despair and desperation, the politicians agitate by blaming foreigners for stealing jobs (Getty)
ACM

ANC booed at xenophobic panel

Political leaders discussed attacks on foreign nationals and while most of the parties had their views applauded, the ANC representative was booed

  • Eyaaz Matwadia
2 min read
The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has urged eligible citizens to make use of its online registration platform to minimise long queues . (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ACM

​Record number of political parties contesting 2019 polls

Forty-eight parties will appear on the national ballot in 2019, 19 more than those registered in 2014

  • Natasha Marrian
2 min read
Hlaudi Motsoeneng. (Gallo)
ACM

Motsoeneng ‘will gladly’ testify at Zondo commission

The controversial former SABC chief operations officer warned the ANC will ‘be in trouble’

  • Kamva Somdyala
2 min read
“I differ with Ms Williams on a number of things, but on this one, we are together,” Manyi says. (Thapelo Morebudi/Sowetan)
ACM

Mzwanele Manyi finds new political home

Former ANC member Mzwanele Manyi has joined the African Transformation Movement

  • Gemma Ritchie
1 min read