African Independent Congress

The battered Economic Freedom Fighters has not fielded candidates for any Durban by-elections

Independents will need budgets to match their egos if they are to contest the elections

Parties want members to cough for their coming election campaign

At the 2021 local government elections, neither of the two biggest parties got a mandate to govern alone in Johannesburg

National executive committee members are at odds over a coalition with the EFF, with some vowing to lobby party leaders against the arrangement

The Patriotic Alliance and Economic Freedom Fighters ditch the Democratic Alliance during the election of council chairpersons

Both parties have agreed to set timelines for the introduction of provincial legislature Bills to amend the border after the next meeting on March 15.

An abandoned agreement could spell doom for the AIC and ruling party coalition.

The little-known AIC helps the ruling party clinch Ekurhuleni and Rustenberg — and the price rectifies the decade-old Matatiele boundary dispute.

The relatively unknown AIC, a party with a name and logo "reminiscent" to the ANC, has leapt ahead of Agang SA to gain two seats in Parliament.