Crunching numbers and meticulous planning has vaulted the once tiny party into the pound seats.
The Democratic Alliance is set to get the backing of the Economic Freedom Fighters through a mysterious pact the two political parties agreed to.
Citizens of Nelson Mandela Bay, Tshwane and Johannesburg will have to wait a few more hours to see who their mayors will be.
Headlines, blurbs and even a news ticker make the clickbait-filled site seem genuine, but the bias is clear.
The new City of Cape Town council wasted no time in re-electing Dirk Smit and Patricia de Lille as speaker and mayor respectively
Watching the South African metro elections from Zambia, in the final week of its own national election campaign, was a sobering experience.
The organisation popularly known as the "Kadoef" party has surprised its detractors after winning a seat in the Beaufort West municipality’s council.
Possible municipal coalition are slowly taking shape, with Tshwane and Johannesburg the most contentious.
It was with great shock that we heard newly re-elected mayor Patricia de Lille ominously declare it was time for the City of Cape Town to work hard.
That the ANC’s dominant faction prefers to lose votes rather than recall President Jacob Zuma might not be a wise strategy.
The Democratic Alliance and ANC are set to begin the horse-trading in the municipalities and metros that failed to produce an outright majority.
The poor of the town are not immediately taken by the likely new regime and want to see first what will actually change in their lives.
Failure to reach 50% of the vote means they will need a coalition to govern the capital.
IEC chairperson Glen Mashinini says there is nothing wrong with Democratic Alliance leader making predictions.
The results are yet to be finalised but the Democratic Alliance leader is certain Tshwane is blue.
The ANC has withdrawn its complaint to the IEC regarding the outcome of elections in the Nelson Mandela Bay metro.
The DA mayoral candidate has tackled metro staff job security before the election results are out.
The DA took the fight into its strongholds and the ruling party’s supporters stayed away.
The leader of the opposition is confident his party will be the biggest in the fiercely contested metro.
The EFF’s deputy president says the party would be open to having coalition talks with other opposition parties.
Twitter users hilariously share their despair as preliminary election results show the Democratic Alliance leading the polls in some major metros.
Former Democratic Alliance leader and professional pot stirrer Helen Zille has found herself in hot Twitter water once again.
By 7am on Thursday, the DA had an early lead in the highly-contested Nelson Mandela Bay metro, followed by the ANC and EFF.
The Mail & Guardian profiles mayoral candidates in three of the highly contested metros.
An accidental meme and chance photo opp upstaged the Democratic Alliance’s slick drive for votes on the final leg of the election campaign.
With just two days left before the local government elections, I haven’t as yet decided where I will place my ‘X’ on the ballot paper.
Twitterati jump at the chance to create a local Chuck Norris out of DA leader Maimane after misunderstanding his Mandela statement.
Former deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe has lashed out at the ANC, calling the ruling party’s structures ‘bogus’.
Almost three years after his death, former president Nelson Mandela’s name continues to dominate South African politics.
The DA had a plan, in case things went badly wrong during its crescendo rally in Soweto on Saturday. That plan was Prestik. Lots and lots of Prestik.
From the president labelling independent candidates as ‘witches’ to the Cape Party’s secession plans, its a zany political scene.
President Jacob Zuma’s rural hometown is shaping up to be a prime election battleground, with the DA also throwing its hat into the ring.