Lekwa local municipality, which is home to Eskom’s ‘sabotaged’ Tutuka power station, faces rolling blackouts and crumbling infrastructure after governance fell to pieces
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The Economic Freedom Fighters can now take control of the Phokwane local municipality through an opposition coalition
The issue is going to be the political battleground of 2022, and not just for the Western Cape
Rumours abound about the quality of public works upkeep and the person arrested for arson
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If South Africa is moving from being a dominant-party system to a more vibrant, multiparty democracy, as these elections indicate, then coalitions are going to have to become the norm
What do the outcomes of the local government polls portend for the general elections in 2024?
Two investigations into separate explosions at the Rheinmetall Denel Munition depot near Macassar continue
The projections suggest that the two biggest parties — the ANC and the DA — will be eating a huge piece of humble pie as both the broad church and the blue party will see a significant drop
Calls to end production at Rheinmetall Denel Munition after yet another blast rocks the Somerset West area, the fifth since 2018
Addressing climate change is largely absent in the three major parties’ election manifestos
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They will most likely punch above their weight in municipalities to gain leverage from the ANC and DA in next month’s local government elections.
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‘I will come out and explain to the nation exactly how I will deal with [the SIU] report,’ Ramaphosa said during a walkabout at vaccine sites in Gauteng
Parliament is no closer to appointing a board for the National Youth Development Agency after nearly two years
All the contenders are deeply flawed, losing support, or both
In this week’s 96 by-elections, the trend was the ANC held its ground and grew, while the DA lost big, with minority parties eating into its voter base
The Democratic Alliance and their allies are prioritising the unequal and racist capitalist system over people’s lives
The Nodal Review might transform South Africa’s biggest city. Implementing the new policy, which has the potential to open wealthy suburbs to impoverished residents, is the challenge
The ANC in the Western Cape has agreed, in principle, to discuss a move to call for the increase in the number of seats for elected public representatives. Following an interim provincial leadership committee meeting last weekend, the party said it is willing to discuss the matter, and raise it with the party’s national leadership. […]
KZN MPL’s letter to members says the DA is in ‘permanent damage control’ and she won’t watch as the party ‘disappears into oblivion’
The recent election has shown again that the extremism which worries democrats in much of the world has little traction in South Africa
Ramaphosa has to demonstrate that achieving gender equality in SA is an important goal
Mmusi Maimane will follow the exit path of others who have been subjected to whiteness
The FF+ won just 1.57% of the vote in the Western Cape and should be allocated at least one seat in the provincial legislature
Parties like the Freedom Front Plus have enjoyed a surge in interest online
While smaller parties have seen a decline and over fist, the Freedom Front Plus has emerged as one of the biggest winners of the 2019 election
Although it deepens our democracy to see this equitable division of power, it also suggests that South Africans are moving further from each other
With just over half the votes counted, the FF+ has already doubled its 2014 votes
The other two political parties that are most searched for are the ANC and the Economic Freedom Fighters
South Africans headed the polls on Wednesday to elect the country’s sixth democratic administration
In April, the M&G reported that, where other small parties had lost votes hand over fist, the FF+ has steadily maintained its support
South Africans headed the polls on Wednesday to elect the country’s sixth democratic administration
And it is not only white conservatives who are donning the party’s green and orange colours