With at least 66 hung councils so far, coalitions are on the agenda as ANC and DA majorities tumble
Hung municipal councils, most crucially in several metros, mean the ANC will have to find partners to be able to govern
IEC rejects claims local government elections results are late, despite promising to finalise them by Wednesday
Although the ANC believes it has done okay in these elections, the numbers tell a different tale
Northern Cape leads in the vote counting with 89% of its results already completed
The party is struggling to get its base out to vote, despite having a strong presence online and at rallies
The Inkatha Freedom Party is on track to take control of five of the province’s 11 district municipalities
Eskom has announced that stage two load-shedding will be implemented from 4pm on Tuesday afternoon until 5am on Wednesday morning.
The IEC came out guns blazing on Tuesday, despite thousands of voters who had registered in September being turned away because of technical glitches
With hundreds of parties and close to 1 000 independent candidates contesting in municipalities, the 2021 local government election results will be nothing but surprising. Follow the live results here.
Electoral body says this year’s local government vote got off to a fairly good start
It’s the economy, stupid — but also service delivery and corruption. The ANC asks voters to forgive past sins, while the EFF tries to consolidate itself with wild promises of a socialist utopia
Earlier this week, the ailing utility’s chief operating officer assured the public it would try to avoid load-shedding as voters head to the polls on Monday
With many job losses caused by the looting and arson of July, the Midlands town faces an uncertain future
Chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer said the ailing state power utility’s staff would be on standby as South Africans cast their votes on 1 November
Action SA is planning to take the IEC to court after it failed to undertake to address its concerns over the draft ballot papers for the local government elections
When the ANC was faced with possible losses in 95 municipalities, it approached two smaller parties in hope that its endorsements would result in trade-offs.
In love, as in politics, look before you leap
If Jacob Zuma is our Nelson Mandela, what does that leave Mzwanele Manyi?
Candidate court challenges loom for ANC
Young people make use of online portal and women account for more than half of the total registered
The apex court’s dismissal of the Democratic Alliance’s application to declare reopening candidate registration unlawful came as no surprise
Voters can register on the weekend of 18 and 19 September – or they can do it online
The governing party faces legal hurdles thrown up by the Democratic Alliance — and its own members
Governing party denies lobbying the IEC or the Constitutional Court ahead of the announcement that candidate registration would be reopened
DA threatens court action over the reopening of the candidate nomination process
The ANC will be the hardest hit by the order having failed to register with the Electoral Commission of South Africa its candidates in no less than 93 municipalities
The party had lodged the application after it failed to submit proportional representative council lists in municipalities across five provinces in time
Far from an election being a more risky environment, ongoing anger without an election is more dangerous
The party has removed members facing charges in terms of the step-aside resolution, including Newcastle’s mayor and eThekwini former mayor
Fielding councillors charged with corruption, along with Zandile Gumede, would bring the party into disrepute.
The ANC and the DA have blamed the Electoral Commission of South Africa for ‘waking up late’ to request a postponement of the local government elections