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.
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/ 8 February 2011
The ANC’s involvement of the community in selecting councillors for the first time in 2011 is an "exciting exercise", Gwede Mantashe said on Tuesday.
As outrage mounted on Monday over President Jacob Zuma’s promise of a place in heaven for ANC voters, the ANC chaplain general sprang to his defence.
President Jacob Zuma’s comments about heaven and hell during voter registration in the Eastern Cape were not blasphemous, the ANC said on Sunday.
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/ 7 February 2011
<b>Verashni Pillay</b> puts her foot down as a Christian and says, not in my name.
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/ 5 February 2011
President Jacob Zuma has come under fire on Saturday for saying that citizens who opted to vote for an opposition party chose what he termed "hell".
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/ 5 February 2011
The first voter registration weekend kicked off on Saturday ahead of the 2011 local government elections.
Voting is a matter of civic duty and a democratic privilege, says Brigalia Bam, chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission.
Massive defections from Buthelezi’s stronghold could spell the end for the old order.
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) national chairperson Zanele Magwaza-Msibi and her backers have cut ties with the IFP.
The ANC has lost 38 wards in local government elections over the last four years, the latest South Africa Survey has shown.
The Congress of the People’s congress national committee met on Saturday in Kempton Park to discuss "key issues".
Dan Plato, the Cape Town mayor, will soon be standing for re-election — and the rival candidate is likely to be Patricia de Lille.