The party is struggling to get its base out to vote, despite having a strong presence online and at rallies
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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.
The electoral commission acknowledged tech hiccups, but said the biggest problem was the limited time frame it had in which to organise the elections
Electoral body says this year’s local government vote got off to a fairly good start
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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
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Voter turnout for local government elections has steadily risen since 2000, but the uptick could be stalled by Covid-19, much like registration has been
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The nascent Setsoto Service Delivery Forum is confident it can remove the ‘failing ANC’ in the chronically mismanaged Free State municipality
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Journalists Emsie Ferreira and Lizeka Tandwa chat to Mmusi Maimane, Paul Berkowitz and Narend Singh about the state of the opposition
In this episode, veteran journalist Paddy Harper and political journalist Lizeka Tandwa chat to Mawethu Mosery and Vasu Gounden about riots and the elections
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.
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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
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Branding itself as a corruption busting party, ActionSA said it will establish dedicated independent forensics units in each of its municipalities, with the mandate to investigate all potential corrupt activities
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
Nine ANC members in the North West’s Greater Taung Municipality have sent a letter to the national list committee threatening to go to court should the ANC not respond to their demands.
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The ANC deputy secretary general wants the national executive committee members in the province to assess the suitability of the IPC coordinator
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Deputy secretary general Jesse Duarte ordered that they come to the party headquarters to ‘sit with the registration teams and go over their lists’
Of the 504 political parties registered with the IEC, 393 did not respond to the requirement of the Political Party Funding Act
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma calls for Covid-19 caution as she gives political parties the green light to canvass for votes
It is still unclear how discontent with politics, and the effects of Covid-19, will affect voter turnout, according to research company Ipsos
Governing party denies lobbying the IEC or the Constitutional Court ahead of the announcement that candidate registration would be reopened
The ANC president said the basic income grant should be cost effective and subject to long-term affordability
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
The DA announces its mayoral candidates for this years local government elections while the ANC and EFF hold their cards close to the chest