ActionSA has promised positions to the ANC and EFF but the former ruling party is cautious of the city’s poor finances and service delivery failures
The ANC chief whip believes the party might be punished in the local government elections over failed services in the capital if it takes power now
The ANC’s integrity commission will review her involvement in a R575 600 loan from a fixer for the now-defunct VBS Mutual Bank
The embattled DA mayor of Tshwane said coalition partner ActionSA is also responsible for service failures in the metro.
It is still not clear exactly who ActionSA will field as its preferred candidate
Thembi Simelane has come under scrutiny for taking a loan from a company embroiled in the scandal that triggered the bank’s collapse
The ANC wants to unseat the Democratic Alliance, which has run Tshwane for more than a year with help from ActionSA, the African Christian Democratic Party and the Inkatha Freedom Party
The toxic xenophobic politics pushed by Gayton McKenzie and the Patriotic Alliance debases us all
The president said the party had entered uncharted territory following its failure to secure an outright majority in the 29 May general elections
The green mambas’ leader says the ANC is not the only party that has been involved in corruption
ActionSA is set to get the council speaker position and chair of chairs in the new coalition arrangement
Mashaba’s party may vote in favour of the loan if the R200 prepaid electricity service charge is scrapped
Despite the ANC, Economic Freedom Fighters and the minority parties being in government together in the city, the Red Berets voted against a R2.5 billion loan proposed by the coalition
ANC mayoral candidate Cyril Xaba has already replaced Mxolisi Kaunda as a councillor
Populist parties have made considerable gains in the wake of the government’s insecurity-inducing economic policies
Among the PA’s manifesto promises is to put God back into schools. It is now looking to 2026 to win local government seats
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The minister said detractors have celebrated the reputational damage to the student funding scheme, his department and the government.
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