The DA had a plan, in case things went badly wrong during its crescendo rally in Soweto on Saturday. That plan was Prestik. Lots and lots of Prestik.
In what appears to be a political attack, an ANC branch chair and her family were fired on through the wall of their home in Pietermaritzburg.
Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie offered independent candidates cash to campaign ahead of the August 3 elections – but only if they go PA.
For the first time since it came to power in 1994, the ANC has registered the highest number of disputes about supposed imposition of candidates.
Protests raged on in the country’s capital on Monday after the ANC’s Tshwane mayoral candidate, Thoko Didiza, was announced that morning.
All you need to know about the recently-announced ANC Tshwane mayoral candidate.
ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe said the party decided on the announcement, a first in its history, so that candidates could assist in campaigns.
The Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that the local government elections can go ahead on August 3 this year.
The Constitutional Court has ruled that local government elections can go ahead on August 3 without a complete voters’ roll.
Few people have heard of the Building a Cohesive Society in South Africa party but some fed-up voters are prepared to give it a try.
The Democratic Alliance wants the ruling party to answer for the irregular, unauthorised and wasteful expenditure in its metros.
The protest of about 20 people was organised by ANC members belonging to the party’s Sol Plaatjie sub-region in Kimberley.
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.