138 Counting continues, but coalition negotiations are already gathering pace, with early results pointing to shared governance in South Africa’s biggest cities. No party is set to govern Johannesburg or Tshwane on…
Category: Politics
IEC defends voters’ roll and counting process as complaints mount
186 The Electoral Commission has moved to defend both its voters’ roll and its handling of Election Day, as more than 800 complaints were lodged by political parties and questions were raised…
Goodwood prison has zero drug dogs as contraband scandal deepens
179 Goodwood prison in Cape Town still has no drug-sniffing dogs. Correctional Services sent four narcotics dogs to Grootvlei prison instead. Goodwood remains without a single one. The failure came under scrutiny…
Mashaba claims 54 ANC wards in Gauteng metros
146 ActionSA says it has taken 54 wards from the ANC in Gauteng’s three metros, including every ward in Tembisa. Party leader Herman Mashaba made the claim at ActionSA’s results briefing on…
Mokonyane refuses to bury ANC as voters deliver crushing verdict
172 ANC deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane says her party is “yet to be condemned”, even as early results show its support at its lowest in a municipal election. Asked at Thursday’s results…
Zille ahead in Joburg votes, but ANC could still block her from mayor’s office
179 Johannesburg has not yet delivered a final result. But the projections are already telling a brutal story: the DA is on course to win the city in votes, and the ANC…
SACP leaves ANC begging as communists refuse to rush into coalition
143 The ANC went looking for a familiar friend on Thursday. The SACP left it standing in the cold. Hours after ANC deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane named the communists as a party…
ANC falls one seat short of outright majority in Maruleng
149 Maruleng Local Municipality in Limpopo’s Mopani District has become the first municipality to complete the counting of votes in the 2026 Local Government Elections. The African National Congress (ANC) has fallen…
Mokonyane: DA 'must be watched' as GNU ties reviewed
144Mokonyane: DA 'must be watched' as GNU ties reviewed
Maotwe: EFF yet to win a single target ward
134 The EFF has not won any of the 40 wards it was banking on in Tshwane outright, its mayoral candidate Omphile Maotwe has admitted. Maotwe, who is also the EFF’s treasurer-general,…