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Selective: The Freedom Front Plus, whose posters hang in the streets of Danville in Pretoria, says it is contesting all eight metros but believes it can be a kingmaker in Tshwane. Photo: Lefty Shivambu/Gallo Images
ABANTU INTEGRITY MOVEMENT

Municipal elections: Smaller parties battle for kingmaker status

They will most likely punch above their weight in municipalities to gain leverage from the ANC and DA in next month’s local government elections.

  • Lizeka Tandwa
7 min read
National Freedom Party members at the launch of the party’s 2014 election manifesto at Mehlareng Stadium in Tembisa, South Africa. The killing of a NFP candidate at Nongoma has sent the party’s candidates in KwaZulu-Natal into hiding in fear for their lives. (Photo by Gallo Images /Sowetan / Mohau Mofokeng)
AL JAMA AH

How ANC bartered to save the elections

When the ANC was faced with possible losses in 95 municipalities, it approached two smaller parties in hope that its endorsements would result in trade-offs.

  • Lizeka Tandwa
  • Paddy Harper
6 min read