A Idasa survey revealed that, in general, the deterioration of services was seen by 31% to be the result of an increase in corruption.
Fed up with the replacement of its elected candidate, Knysna is declaring its independence, writes <b>Glynnis Underhill</b>.
Disgruntlement over Luthuli House’s perceived manipulation of candidate lists have resulted in an increase in the number of independent candidates.
The ANC says it won’t announce its mayoral candidates until after the May 18 polls, saying the elections were about the party, not individuals.
Have municipal services improved, worsened or stayed the same over the four years since the last local government elections?
The ANC is confident of taking the Midvaal municipality from the DA, Gauteng provincial spokesperson Dumisa Ntuli said on Saturday.
In the municipal elections citizens can choose between candidates to lead them at local level. But for organisations such as Cosatu there is no choice
ANCYL leader Julius Malema invoked the name of Nelson Mandela in a speech urging his supporters to vote for the ANC, it was reported.
The ANC Youth League on Wednesday disagreed with the remarks of Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi on the upcoming local government elections.
The case against two men accused of conspiring to kill senior ANC Eastern Cape members was adjourned on Wednesday.
The ANC is not likely to win Cape Town in the coming elections, but will look to do well elsewhere in the Western Cape, it said on Wednesday.
A number of party and independent candidates wanting to partake in the 2011 local municipal elections were notified of non-compliance.
Some ANC members who complained about the ANC candidate list process have reason to be aggrieved, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi says.
The Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of the Municipal Demarcation Board in a court case that could have delayed the municipal election.
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.