Embattled mayor had been under pressure over the city’s adverse audit opinion in 2021-2022
The EFF demanded the mayorship of uMhlathuze in return for giving the IFP the mayorship of Mogale City as part of a multiple party agreement with the ANC
Governing party says it cannot be ‘arrogant’ and try to run Durban alone
Nineteen interest groups are seeking urgent relief from ongoing load-shedding to ensure the provision of basic services
Public enterprises minister raises complexity of issues involved in response to a letter of demand from parties planning to sue the state
The Democratic Alliance says the 18% electricity price hike is unconstitutional, while other parties are likely to file a wider challenge on the power crisis
The parties have forged an alliance to remove the ruling party from power in the province
About 50% of South Africans say they would relinquish their voting rights if an effective government was guaranteed
Parliament to vote on motion to set up ad-hoc committee to investigate allegations
The Msunduzi municipality has been ordered to continue providing services despite the rates dispute with the land body
eThekwini metro and KwaDukuza municipality are likely to face similar challenges as the Msunduzi municipality
Opposition parties plan to strip the ANC of its control of the city
The province lives with the constant threat of renewed political violence
The finance minister’s reduction in corporate income tax and allocations to education, health, social development, justice and police have been welcomed
The Economic Freedom Fighters says it will flex its power if it doesn’t get a key Johannesburg committee seat
ANC MP Mervyn Dirks has asked Busisiwe Mkhwebane to investigate Ramaphosa’s ‘failure to report corruption’
The party lost 25 council seats in what was one of its strongholds
The hardest part of reckoning is the reckoning and where the archbishop is resented it is not for the ways in which the TRC failed but those in which it succeeded and brought an unfathomable past into a flawed present, writes Elisha Kunene.
The 2021 local government elections are a clear demonstration of the failure to manage internal disagreements, where many of the parties, civic movements and independent candidates that contested these local government elections are direct offshoots of the ANC
The speaker of parliament intervened when the DA demanded the deputy president comment on rumours he had been poisoned, saying health information was confidential
IFP president emeritus is isolating at home
Whistleblower Thabiso Zulu can’t explain his situation to his son, but continues to expose wrongdoing and show solidarity with others
After a whirlwind two weeks, the Democratic Alliance’s ‘win’ of metros is no celebration as members fear the coming tide of instability
No clear winners after weeks of jostling for 160 hung municipalities
Three days and three nights of skulduggery keep the Son of Man out of Durban’s mayoral parlour
Flawed process may still end up in court
Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni metropolitan municipalities go to the Democratic Alliance, with eThekwini set to follow.
South Africa’s 66 hung municipalities have to constitute councils or face a rerun of elections
Those haggling over the keys to Durban city hall can’t smell the shit in the harbour
Deals with the Inkatha Freedom Party deliver small towns, but metros remain beyond the ruling party’s reach
ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa is understood to have been part of talks that swung the agreement, which is a ‘governance plan’ rather than a coalition
The EFF has decided to close all talks with the ANC; meanwhile, the DA has not made any headway in talks with ActionSA as time runs out for councils to elect leaders