Local elections 2021: news & insights

Weakening the ANC by keeping it out of power and leveling the playing field for the EFF had been the reason behind the ...

EFF leader Julius Malema says the ANC has itself to blame for the dismal loss of power in some of the country’s richest ...

The ANC head of elections Fikile Mbalula admitted that voters punished the party for being unconvincing in its promise ...

Now that the elections and swearing in of councillors and mayors is almost done, it's time to educate the voters about ...

The DA's Refiloe Nt'sekhe has dismissed claims she absconded from the Ekurhuleni council meeting at which a new mayor ...

Addressing DA supporters following the party's big wins in Ekurhuleni and the City of Johannesurg on Monday, DA leader ...

Former Ekurhuleni mayor Mzwandile Masina has committed the ANC into working with the new DA led-administration to ...

The people of Johannesburg did not give the DA a clear majority, therefore the party cannot be expected to exclusively ...

Smaller political parties who hold sway over who gets to govern hung municipalities across the country, including the ...

ACDP leader Rev Kenneth Meshoe wants the looming coalition governments in hung councils to be vehicles to help ensure ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has described the outcome of this year’s municipal elections as a clear expression from South ...

It's official: The DA will govern Cape Town for another five years, but with a reduced majority.

The electoral authority announced that the ANC had won the majority of the country's councils, but that 66 were "hung" ...

The ANC has retained the dysfunctional Ditsobotla local municipality in Lichtenburg, North West, with a slight majority ...

Residents from Gauteng metros have expressed mixed reactions to the prospects of coalition governments in their ...

The ANC's poor showing in the local government elections which saw its national electoral support drop  below 50% for ...

Residents of Vuwani in Limpopo, who boycotted voting in municipal elections in 2016 over demarcation issues, have ...

While many Johannesburg wards remained in the hands of political parties that previously ran them before the local ...

The ballot papers had been counted before the attack so the votes were not compromised.

Community members of  Matebeleng - a remote village next to the N1 highway en-route to Polokwane say it is only God who ...

As results for the municipal elections continued to trickle in on Tuesday morning, the ANC maintained its lead despite ...

Malema said victory was imminent for the party and that the youth's vote could be decisive when all the votes are ...

All that 90-year-old blind granny Zithulele Manganye hopes her vote will get her is an RDP house.

Deep distrust, apathy, wariness and weariness - the mood in Thembisa, Ekhuruleni, on election day is palpable.

Residents in major townships in Emfuleni local municipality say they have cast their vote to bring about change that ...

It was a day of mixed emotions during election day on Monday as residents of the dysfunctional Ditsobotla in North West ...

A man was arrested on Monday for trying to vote twice in the local government elections at the Sindawonye Primary ...

Sowetans took to the streets on voting day to show their dissatisfaction at the lack of services and the rolling ...

Voting is slow in Nelmapius, and voters are generally not happy with their political leaders.

After casting her vote, Shela Molomo got on with her day as she pushed a wheelbarrow to fetch water.

Madoda Goniwe, who cast his vote at Marikana Combined School in ward 31, said tribalism and corruption had resulted in ...

Residents in Nyanga hope their votes in the 2021 municipal elections will help win the fight against crime in the Cape ...

Road closures, locked gates, trenches and a voting station break-in were some of the incidents that hampered the ...

"We have not had water in four days. This is the first time that Etwatwa has not come out in their numbers to vote in ...

Despite an almost two-hour delay to the start of voting at Thabo Mpempe Primary School, dozens of residents in the ...

Deep distrust, apathy, wariness and weariness - the mood in Thembisa, Ekhuruleni, on election day is palpable.

Former president Kgalema Motlanthe is hoping for less load-shedding.

Kaylee Veeran was looking forward to cast her vote at Hofland Park Recreational Centre in Johannesburg but her name was ...

The community of Emaphupheni, near Daveyton on the East Rand, have shut down a voting station as they protest over ...

When gospel legend Sipho Makhabane cast his vote on Monday morning, he was voting for change and more development in ...

Mbeki was speaking at Holy Family College in Parktown where he casted his vote on Monday.

First time voters have appealed to their generation to to go to the polls in numbers.

Residents of the troubled Emfuleni local municipality who cast their vote today say they are doing it for employment ...

Soshanguve residents who came to cast their votes at Nchuncheko primary school are complaining about service delivery.

Residents of Orlando in Soweto have vowed to vote, despite the lack of services in the area.

As the sun rose on election day, the first person to catch the rays while waiting at the gates of Sedi-Laka Primary ...

From New York’s bustling streets to the dusty roads of the rural community of Mankosi in the Eastern Cape, nearly half ...

Only the people can make a change in the SA political situation. The people of SA have the power to choose who leads ...

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has argued that the opposition failed to dislodge his party from power in the 2021 ...

Civil organisation Rivonia Circle will, as part of its campaign to get more people to vote, launch a documentary which ...

The IEC in Gauteng, which boasts the highest number of registered voters for the May 29 general elections, says it's ...

As SA gears up for the 2024 general elections, discussions surrounding the electoral process have surged across social ...

The ANC suffered yet another blow yesterday when the high court in Durban dismissed its application to interdict the ...

All this creates a suspicion of the IEC playing politics that could potentially get some questioning its independence ...

The Electoral Commission of South Africa says it is confident law enforcement and security agencies will safeguard the ...

The Electoral Commission of South Africa is briefing the media on Tuesday on the latest developments regarding the ...

Deputy chief justice Mandisa Maya aptly captured SA’s anticipation for the electoral court to release its reasons to ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa says South Africa's democracy is in good health despite challenges more than a month before ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa believes there is nothing sinister about the Electoral Commission approaching the ...

Despite ANC MP Boy Mamabolo feeling cheated of a parliamentary seat by the governing party, he is open to resolve the ...

The Electoral Court yesterday set aside a decision by the IEC to bar former president Jacob Zuma from standing for ...

Y-esterday Zuma won the appeal against his disqualification by the IEC to go to parliament.Whatever the legalities of ...

The DA has won its court case against the Electoral Commission of South Africa to have more voting stations for ...

Former president Jacob Zuma's victory in the Electoral Court yesterday will embolden his MK Party's campaign ahead of ...

"Serious lawbreakers should not be lawmakers." These are the words of the Electoral Commission of SA's (IEC) counsel ...

Former president Jacob Zuma can contest the upcoming general elections.This after the Electoral Court dismissed the ...

The MK Party is on Monday challenging the decision by the Electoral Commission of South Africa to remove its leader ...

The Electoral Court is on Friday expected to hold virtual hearings on matters that must be resolved before the ...

The Electoral Commission of South Africa has urged political parties to approach the upcoming polls with "peace and ...

The Electoral Commission of South Africa is hosting the signing ceremony of the Electoral Code of Conduct and ballot ...

April is Freedom Month – a month during which we commemorate our long walk to freedom.

I hold the opinion that the ANC's brown sheep and former president Jacob Zuma has done more for the ANC's election ...

South Africans, we’re a few days before the sixth municipal elections. Obviously, we know that the concept of service ...

Usually, campaigning is an exciting exercise, spending more time on the ground with our people, listening and learning, ...