Now that the DA’s in charge, Egoli’s woke white liberals can feel free to bitch about the potholes.
The Gupta family pleaded with the Democratic Alliance’s David Maynier to stop using the family name “as a football in his party-politicking battles”.
The party fared well in its municipalities but faces challenges with the new ones.
The political marriage between the Blues and the Red Berets is not happening, because the dowry each is offering is not what the other wanted.
Everyone is talking about the new speaker of the Johannesburg council who bears the same name as a Portuguese colonialist.
The EFF is sending a strong message to South Africans that it wants to be known as the only political home for radical change.
The metro’s new mayor, Solly Msimanga, says the party will no longer allow citizens ‘to be skivvies of councillors and a certain political party’.
Readers write in about Hansie Smit’s Cape Town, the image of islam, and the need for strong women.
Its mistakes quickly forgotten, the ruling party reasons that those who didn’t vote do support the ANC after all.
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.