DA leader Helen Zille on Monday cited the party’s success in running Cape Town in her bid to garner votes in East London.
ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has likened opposition leader Helen Zille to a monkey, reports said on Monday.
The ANC is vowing to win back Gauteng’s top performing Democratic Alliance-run Midvaal municipality, but the party faces a tough task.
In the run-up to the local government elections on May 18, the Institute for Democracy in Africa conducted an extensive citizen-satisfaction survey.
Alliance partner’s KwaZulu-Natal structures say they will ignore candidates who do not have grassroots backing.
Congress of the People’s Mbhazima Shilowa faction has decided not to campaign for the May 18 municipal elections alongside the party’s Mosiuoa Lekota.
The people of Johannesburg deserve Democratic Alliance governance, the party’s leader, Helen Zille, said in the city on Monday.
The 2011 local government elections were not a contest between race groups, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille said in Kliptown on Saturday.
With former allies facing off on the election battlefield the race is on for KwaZulu-Natal .
Changes to ward councillor lists are a growing headache for the ANC in the Western Cape.
Cope looks set to present a serious headache to the IEC as it prepares for the local government elections, scheduled for May 18.
The Democratic Alliance is on a mission to change its colours. But is the transformation only skin deep?
An application to nullify the ANC’s election candidate lists in the Eastern Cape’s Alfred Nzo region was dismissed by a high court on Wednesday.
Disgruntled members of the ANC stormed the party’s provincial offices on Tuesday over selection of candidates in 16 wards.
UNDP director for democratic governance <strong>Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi</strong> speaks to the <em>M&G</em> about democracy in Africa.
An ANC councillor in Mpumalanga used the funeral of a man to campaign for the party, it was reported on Monday.
The ANC will register its list for the local government elections in two weeks time and will not be derailed by pending lawsuits, the party said.
The local government election timetable was published on Friday, signalling the countdown to election day on May 18.
Municipalities have been warned of dire consequences if they are found using municipal funds for electoral purposes.
Cosatu’s Western Cape provincial secretary, Tony Ehrenreich believes the Democratic Alliance has reason to be concerned.
Cosatu has forwarded the name of its Western Cape provincial secretary, Tony Ehrenreich, to the ANC as a candidate for mayor of Cape Town.
The ANC is in no danger of losing the election. But
the party shows signs of losing voters’ unquestioning
struggle loyalty.
Potential voters found themselves being intimidated as they attempted to register in Limpopo’s Vhembe municipality on the weekend.
More than 600 000 people visited voting stations on the first day of the final voter registration weekend.
The Independent Electoral Commission warned SA voters that it was likely that the May 18 election date would be proclaimed in the coming week.
The local government elections will take place on May 18, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe announced on Thursday.
President Jacob Zuma vowed that the ANC would fix local government as he launched the ANC’s 2011 election manifesto on Sunday.
Only two of the country’s six top metros are likely to retain their mayors after the local government elections in May.
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/ 23 February 2011
You will know that we are a few weeks away from local government elections when a leaflet drops in your street.
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/ 16 February 2011
Fewer and bigger municipalities might be the best way to address service delivery, says Gauteng minister of local government Humphrey Mmemezi.
Jacob Zuma faced pressure on Thursday to map out concrete steps to fight massive unemployment with nearly one in four people jobless in South Africa.
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/ 9 February 2011
The number of South Africans who will be able to cast their votes in the local government elections has topped the 23,1-million mark, the IEC says.