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.
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/ 21 January 2011
In an unusual move, the Free State premier has criticised the ANC’s deployment policy as the cause of poor service delivery in many municipalities and government departments.
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/ 15 January 2011
As the IFP’s squabbling over leadership positions threatens to derail its aspirations, the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is striking while the iron is hot.
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) will target young voters in a voter-registration drive ahead of the 2011 municipal elections.
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/ 27 February 2006
Of the Cosatu respondents, 64% believed Cosatu should stay in the alliance, while 18% said the federation should go it alone.
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/ 27 February 2006
A letter sent this week to the Mail & Guardian Online heart-rendingly underscores how bad conditions are in many townships.
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/ 24 February 2006
DA canvassers believe they may need the ID or FF Plus to rule the city.
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/ 24 February 2006
Amid the chaos of his family home, Rapule Tabane comments on a tragic situation the government could have avoided.
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/ 17 February 2006
The ANC in Kokstad’s Matatiele municipality has splintered over the government’s handling of the cross-border dispute in the area.
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/ 17 February 2006
Residents expressed their disgust at the incorporation decision and told the Mail & Guardian they would resist the move to the bitter end.
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/ 17 February 2006
It has proven valuable to stage local government elections at a different time from those of national and provincial government.
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/ 17 February 2006
– the Mail & Guardian focuses on ‘cross-border’ communities in open rebellion against the ANC.