Urban voters navigating the daily realities of transport breakdowns, potholes, water outages, electricity instability, crime and failing municipalities are not impressed by spectacle
The Democratic Alliance federal chair declined to commit to a time frame within which she planned to fix the city’s problems if elected mayor
It’s detractors say the party has accepted the 30% pass because it is enjoying the benefits of the government of national unity
While residents battle water cuts and filthy streets, Pikitup and Joburg Water leaders face multibillion-rand nepotism claims
The Johannesburg mayor is about to be ditched
The waste management company’s services are not operational in 10 of the 12 depots around Johannesburg because of protest action
The opposition party’s flag-burning advert has ignited much criticism
Deputy Minister Parks Tau reiterated the government’s stance that medical aid tax breaks will be forfeited to fund the proposed universal health care plan
Plans like the one announced by employment and labour minister Thulas Nxesi won’t move the needle on joblessness
In trying to provide an alternative to the ANC, the new political grouping has fallen into old traps
Businesses struggle to survive as progress in the R196m reconstruction of the street remains at a standstill
At the 2021 local government elections, neither of the two biggest parties got a mandate to govern alone in Johannesburg
Brink called for cooperation between parties, characterising the past weeks at the Tshwane council as unfortunate
ActionSA has terminated the membership of one of its prominent councillors and the multi-party coalition is expected to name a mayoral candidate soon
Drunk on hubris, the UK’s Tory party has followed a populist path to instability. The ANC and its opposition peers follow a similar path
The broken Zimbabwe economy and political system are too much of a push factor for xenophobia and Aaron Motsoaledi to stop people seeking refuge in Mzansi
The Socio-Economic Rights Institute alleges the threats came after public statements by ActionSA city councillor Nkululeko Mbundu
The ANC, heads to this weekend’s policy conference more concerned with pushing back on attempts to improve governance than finding solutions to the many structural fault lines that have been so crudely exposed by our economic deterioration since the outbreak of the pandemic
Despite warnings that vigilante organisations can become xenophobic and violent, the ruling ANC says the more grassroots groups like these, the better
We will all bear the brunt of a political landscape that is less about governing and more about the satisfaction of personal interests and vindictive opposition
It’s the economy, stupid — but also service delivery and corruption. The ANC asks voters to forgive past sins, while the EFF tries to consolidate itself with wild promises of a socialist utopia
The DA appears to have abandoned its ambitions of 2016 and is set to lose further ground in the upcoming elections
Addressing climate change is largely absent in the three major parties’ election manifestos
Action SA leader Herman Mashaba has made a scathing attack on the election body, intimating it appeared hell bent on impeding the party’s hopes at the polls
Action SA is planning to take the IEC to court after it failed to undertake to address its concerns over the draft ballot papers for the local government elections
Submissions to the inquiry into elections under Covid-19 call for local government polls to run as scheduled, or move online
By-elections on super Wednesday are due to go ahead as scheduled this week. The electoral commission told the media that it is now ready for the elections, which have been put on hold since March.