Major problems confront a party that was once confident of seriously damaging the ANC in 2019
An urgent application by the United Democratic Movement has been struck from the roll for want of urgency and the party ordered to pay costs.
The DA and UDM will meet to secure the Nelson Mandela Bay coalition.
Lungisa was elected as chairperson of the region earlier this month, despite warnings from Gwede Mantashe
The Democratic Alliance-led coalition was formed after the August 3 local government elections.
The former Nelson Mandela Bay mayor tendered his resignation as an ANC councillor on Sunday.
Since the elections, Jordaan has missed all three official sittings of the new municipal council.
The recently-appointed speaker of the council, Jonathan Lawack, said the actions of the party’s councillors were unacceptable.
The poor of the town are not immediately taken by the likely new regime and want to see first what will actually change in their lives.
Twitter brings out the memes as Number One remains silent on preliminary election results.
The deputy president has disputed claims that the party’s leaders are ‘arrogant and self-centred’.
The DA candidate deflected to the ANC, the ANC candidate is now DA.
The DA mayoral candidate has tackled metro staff job security before the election results are out.
The opposition’s message struck home as a result of widespread disenchantment with the ANC.
The UDM president is not concerned about parties talking to anyone else.
The leader of the opposition is confident his party will be the biggest in the fiercely contested metro.
Electoral commission maintains results from the highly contested municipality remain credible, despite outrage from party officials.
Nelson Mandela Bay mayor Danny Jordaan has cast his vote in the metro.
Tshwane residents are richer, Cape Town’s shack dwellers are up and Jo’burg is tops at services.
But perhaps the DA is working on the theme of a morally bankrupt ANC and promising well-run municipalities should it take them in the local elections.
The museum has become a white elephant, with local residents accusing the metro of “building a house for dead people” while they live in squalor.
A fatal bus accident killed 10 ANC members who were travelling from the ANC’s Manifesto Launch in PE to their homes in the Ekurhuleni region.
We break down the ANC’s local government elections manifesto into a digestible read.
Zuma’s manifesto launch speech referred to the Constitution. Earlier this month the Concourt ruled he failed to uphold this supreme law, however.
The M&G was informed that in some cases the buses were not paid for, while in others people who were feeling aggrieved with the ANC refused to come.
There were an estimated 30 000 people in the stadium when Zuma entered – far less than the 110 000 the ANC expected and promised.
Mantashe said that Mogoeng’s public talk about the Concourt’s Nkandla judgment would provoke verbal attacks against the judiciary by politicians.
Senior ruling party officials received a less-than-warm welcome when they took to the streets of Port Elizabeth and its surrounding areas.
While the DA protested the rejection of their anti-Zuma protest, former DA members defected to the ANC – allegedly because of racism within the DA.
Jacob Zuma addressed commuters at the Uitenhage taxi rank from a small ANC-branded campaign truck parked in a spot used as a makeshift urinal.
The party has paid for thousands of buses and taxis to ferry supporters to its election manifesto launch in a bid to stem losses in the metro.
According to President Jacob Zuma, the ANC is “working hard to change the lives" of people … It just takes time – "like growing maize".