To avoid a recurrence of damaging betrayals, the party is forcing its public officials to swear their allegiance.
Businessman and DA mayoral candidate Herman Mashaba said this week that he couldn’t wait to win the Jo’burg mayor’s office and transform the city.
“It’s Freedom Day and then you have this kind of political intolerance,” said DA councillor Heinz De Boer.
We break down the ANC’s local government elections manifesto into a digestible read.
Jacob Zuma has announced the date of municipal elections, while the IEC has appealed to South Africans for a smooth registration weekend this week.
Ahead of local government elections the party is calling on a team of professionals and academics to help it regain votes in Gauteng.
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The ANC has begun an investigation into alleged irregularities in last year’s local government election candidate lists — starting in Limpopo.
In the recent local-government elections the Democratic Alliance emerged as a serious rival to the ANC.
The 2011 local government elections were a "huge wake-up call" for the ANC, Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has said.
The African National Congress (ANC) has to maintain its links with the people on the ground, ANC chairperson Baleka Mbete said on Thursday.
Opposition partisanship is on the rise, indicating a shift in politics in SA, a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies has said.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has said that print media coverage of the recent local government elections was mostly biased.
The ANC-NFP coalition signalled a "dark day for democracy in KwaZulu-Natal," the IFP said on Monday.
The African National Congress (ANC) and the National Freedom Party (NFP) will work together in all hung municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal.
The ANC plans to investigate allegations of candidate list manipulation, the ruling party’s secretary general said on Sunday.
President Zuma is worried that comments made by ANC leaders are alienating minority voters and urged the party to engage in "serious introspection".
As horse trading over coalitions to run at least 19 KZN municipalities continued, there was the distinct smell of decomposing horse meat on the table.
The National Freedom Party strategists ascribe the three-month-old organisation’s successful début to little else but the commitment of its members.
Opposition parties fear that the IEC’s new leadership will be dominated by the ANC’s preferred candidates.
The ANC has sarcastically pointed out that only in SA can a party that wins 62% of the vote be deemed to have lost an election.
The DA will not court trouble by entering coalitions with problematic parties merely to win control over two small municipalities in the Western Cape.
Coalition rule in Cape Town was the first major step in the DA’s move into government. But the party is treading more carefully this time around.
Analysts have, by and large, fallen into two misguided camps: those who have breathlessly proclaimed a "sea change" or "watershed” election.
Last week’s local elections were the most significant political event in SA since the first democratic elections in April 1994.
Many analysts and news reporters, both at the SABC and in the private media, have emphasised how the 2011 municipal elections were "business as usual"
The ANC’s Parks Tau has been appointed as the mayor of Johannesburg, the city said on Thursday.
Cope communications chief Phillip Dexter has proposed that the party relaunch itself or disband, the <em>Times</em> said on Thursday.
The ANC’s priority prior to the national elections in three years’ time will be to claw back the minority vote.
The ANC has signed a coalition agreement with Icosa and an independent councillor to secure government in Oudtshoorn, Cape Agulhas and Kannaland.
The African National Congress Youth League on Wednesday denied that its president, Julius Malema, had cost the ANC minority votes.
The NFP has said it would not start coalition talks with the IFP until the IFP publicly apologises for its comments about the splinter group.
The DA has questioned the motives behind a request by President Jacob Zuma for a Special Investigating Unit probe into the Midvaal municipality.