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.
The only municipality in Gauteng governed the Democratic Alliance is accused of discrimination by the ruling party’s mayoral candidate.
It started with a mere complaint about a neighbourhood issue. But it may turn into defamation charges – and some unexpected campaigning for the EFF.
Spin doctor Ryan Coetzee, who gave South Africa’s DA a new lease of life, gives his take on Britain’s peculiar politics of narcissism.
We don’t have all the answers, unlike other parties, but we do promise to keep the status quo — of bewilderment, bafflement and bemusement.
An election advert using Mandela’s voice has elicited the ire of his grandson who says he shouldn’t be affiliated with the ‘betrayal of our struggle’.
The Treasury issued a report to the Constitutional Court on Monday, saying that the president must pay back R7.8-million.
On Thursday, the Western Cape High Court ruled in favour of the DA and its leader Mmusi Maimane and ordered the committee to be reconstituted.
Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says plane is also meant for other members of the executive.
The party is hoping its strong mayoral candidate will help it win power in Zuma’s rural base.
Ramaphosa called for the party to hold hands and strategise a battle plan to win back the province and the city from the Democratic Alliance.
The Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that the local government elections can go ahead on August 3 this year.
The Democratic Alliance’s candidate lists in KZN are contested as leaders are accused of nepotism, racism and not following party guidelines.
DA leader Mmusi Maimane said the ANC’s dropping of the ‘state capture’ probe showed the ruling party was never serious about investigating the issue.
The Democratic Alliance accused the public broadcaster of censorship for delays in airing the party’s election campaign advertisements.
After causing chaos in Parliament on various occasions, the EFF members have been requested by the Democratic Alliance to pay.
The Jo’burg mayoral candidate led a DA jobs march in Diepsloot on Tuesday and explained his plans to reduce crime in the city.
The Democratic Alliance said it planned to submit a budget amendment in Parliament that could save the country R9-billion in total.
This is the first in a series of articles looking at the dedicated volunteers who take the message of their political parties to the people.
Deputy Speaker Lechesa Tsenoli ruled that DA leader Mmusi Maimane’s calling President Jacob Zuma an “accused criminal” in Parliament was out of order.
The DA already rules out the possibility of a coalition with the EFF due to “different values”.
In their competition for local votes the ANC, DA and EFF have interesting ideas of what ‘the people’ want.
ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu warned Julius Malema that, like the right-wing group that tried to overthrow government, prison would be his ‘home’.
During a heated exchange in Parliament on Tuesday, EFF MP Nazier Paulsen referred to DA MP Yusuf Cassim as a “Zionist sell-out kaffir”.