All the news about SA's 2021 local government elections

Dr Mbali Dhlomo-Sibiya, a senior social psychology lecturer at Unisa, said loyalty to a political group can be ...

ActionSA held a media briefing on Tuesday to explain the party’s approach to coalition government.

Corruption, factionalism and internal squabbles were a turn-off for voters, Ramaphosa said at a 'thank you' rally on ...

"A rerun of elections will wipe out the dying ANC to zero - he must bring it on! We’re more than ready!" said Shivambu.

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba has poured cold water on speculation that he is demanding mayorship of Johannesburg as a ...

Despite the declining electoral support, Ramaphosa maintained that the ANC "is not about to collapse".

ActionSA president Herman Mashaba and other party officials are briefing the media in Johannesburg on Tuesday on the ...

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Parties including ActionSA, the DA and the IFP have vowed not to work with the ANC in any circumstances.

The ruling party’s national electoral support in the municipal elections held on Monday came in at 46.05%, while it ...

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DA leader John Steenhuisen has assured its supporters the party will not form “unstable coalitions” with the ANC, EFF ...

The DA says it has reached out to several smaller political parties – including ActionSA, the ACDP and Freedom Front ...

However, the party will work with the ANC outside the province as its relationship with the party’s national leadership ...

The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has provided insight into future plans for the province where it lost majority status as its ...

Founder of One SA Movement Mmusi Maimane spoke to Eusebius McKaiser about how his exit from the DA as the party's ...

"Keep my name out of it. You made your bed, these results are on you," said Maimane.

Former DA MP Phumzile Van Damme has reflected on her exit from politics, saying she is enjoying watching the results of ...

'The term puppet is saved and reserved for myself, Carl Niehaus, John Steenhuisen and anyone associated with the ...

Basic service provision, job creation and tackling load-shedding were some of the promises made by politicians in the ...

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

A whopping 66 municipalities will have coalition governments at the helm after South Africans did not give any party ...

The ANC may be only guaranteed an outright majority in two metros - Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape and Mangaung in ...

The man from the agricultural village of Sephaku in Limpopo who shocked many when he began campaigning to be a ...

ANC head of elections Fikile Mbalula has conceded the party does not appear set for a clean sweep in all ...

The EFF is not fazed by not winning municipalities outright: as long as the ANC stands at less than 50% in some ...

The City of Johannesburg is likely to have a government of coalitions that will exclude the ANC if ActionSA has its way.

Irrespective of who wins the local government elections in Matatiele’s ward 10, an Eastern Cape family will emerge ...

The IEC says it is not responsible for the poor voter turnout in the 2021 local government elections, saying it ...

Ready to govern is slowly becoming ready to co-govern in many municipalities across KwaZulu-Natal as political parties ...

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa is addressing the organisation's 2021 local government elections "thank you" event.

The ANC may have been punished, but it’s still powerful as the rising parties jostle for position in a new political ...

While Zuma feigns outraged ignorance, the reasons for SA’s gloomy situation are as clear as day

Low voter turnout is a rejection of major parties and unless they provide solutions to our issues, we’re in big trouble

Eusebius McKaiser chats to Peter Bruce about how SA parties have entered a new era

Instead of confronting reality after its elections disaster, the party will blame-game its way to self-destruction

Ramaphosa likes to take his time to fix things. Unfortunately the ANC doesn’t have that luxury any more

Empty promises and a department that’s supposed to look after military veterans, but doesn’t, are unacceptable

The recent elections produced a mixed bag of bloody noses for the big guns and personal bests for the smaller parties

The Electoral Commission’s (IEC) announcement of the final results of the 2021 municipal elections is scheduled for ...

The options will be tabled at the party's extended national working committee meeting on Friday.

The EFF is not fazed by not winning municipalities outright: as long as the ANC stands at less than 50% in some ...

The ANC has won outright one metro and three district municipalities in KZN, in what is a significant blow to the party.

ActionSA contested the local government elections in targeted metros and municipalities, including Johannesburg, ...

Founder of One SA Movement Mmusi Maimane spoke to Eusebius McKaiser about how his exit from the DA as the party's ...

"The ANC has gone below 50%. Someone was supposed to play Tsonga music here so I can dance for you. I'm the happiest ...

The party appears to be collapsing, with a glance at previous local government elections revealing the extent thereof

The EFF leader said that the party would not be approaching any political parties in the hopes of forming coalitions

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

As political parties begin to consolidate their grip on various municipalities, one thing that DA leader John ...

“There are many lessons that we can immediately identify, the most obvious being never attempt to plan an election of ...

The ANC has admitted that it will have no choice but to form governments of coalitions in several municipalities across ...

A whopping 66 municipalities will have coalition governments at the helm after South Africans did not give any party ...

The commission’s general manager on electoral matters, Granville Abrahams, said 96.9% of results were already in the ...

The City of Johannesburg is likely to have a government of coalitions that will exclude the ANC if ActionSA has its way.

EFF deputy president Floyd Shivambu slammed the announcement by Eskom about its power system being under severe ...

'I strongly believe that this is the beginning of the end of the ANC,' says political analyst Ralph Mathekga.

Irrespective of who wins the local government elections in Matatiele’s ward 10, an Eastern Cape family will emerge ...

If the ANC ever felt invincible, the people of KwaZulu-Natal are showing the party that it is not too powerful to be ...

The IEC has come under fire as a result of ballot paper shortages that prevented scores of people from casting votes in ...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research is predicting a poor election performance by the ANC in most major ...

TimesLIVE can reveal the ANC top leadership will discuss the adoption of “contracts of deployment for ANC local ...

As of Thursday morning, five of the country's eight metros will not have an outright winner, paving the way for vital ...

A partnership between the IEC and the health department creates a captive audience for prospective vaxxers on election ...

Seventy-year-old Katriena Sambaba pledged her vote to the ANC on election day, and now she waits

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

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

As many South Africans fret over the seemingly dismal 2021 local government election turnout, the IEC said on Monday ...

More than 8-million citizens made their way to the polls to cast their votes in the municipal elections at over 23,000 ...

Voting started slowly on Monday, but many eventually made their marks, from chilly Cape Town to blistering Pretoria

By 6pm on Monday 6.9-million people had voted, with observers saying preliminary figures seemed low

Bad weather in the deep south caused problems, but voters were in ‘good spirits’ and the baboons stayed at home

The IEC has apologised to the Change Party for an error on the proportional representation (PR) ballot papers in ...

DA federal council chair Helen Zille was allegedly dragged out of the Fernwood Park Primary School voting station in ...

Most of Cape Town's homeless population - estimated at between 4,000 and 14,000 people - say they will not vote.

Mabuza on Monday voted for an ANC councillor candidate who is out on bail and facing murder charges.

South Africans were out early to make their choices in the 2021 local government elections on Monday.

Protests, inclement weather, arrests and electricity disruptions all marred the start of the voting day on Monday, the ...

The parties contesting Ward 117 in Parktown North and Parkhurst say they weren't aware of a week-long water leak just a ...

KwaBhaca resident, 119-year-old Nomamelika Emily Philiso, is believed to be one of the oldest people to vote in the ...

In Ward 22, while some walked out having cast their votes, Jacob Mochadibang walked out of the voting station in ...

Former president Jacob Zuma on Monday called on ANC members to vote for the party.

The IEC has confirmed that a presiding officer in the eThekwini Metro was arrested after allegedly stuffing marked ...

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

Police have been deployed to closely monitor the situation at the Ntobeko voting station in ward 2 of the Mkhambathini ...

Alexandra residents took to the area’s polling stations early on November 1 to cast their votes in the municipal ...

Yellow T-shirts filled one side of the road while red T-shirts filled the other at Seshego, as the ANC and EFF battled ...

DA federal leader John Steenhuisen says the eThekwini municipality could do with a 'good dose of DA government to ...

Inclement weather in Cape Town delayed the opening of more than a dozen voting stations.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has cast his vote at Hitekani Primary School, in Chiawelo, Soweto.

Voting at Bryandale Primary School in Bryanston, northern Johannesburg, was brisk on Monday morning.

“I have voted all my life, but not now. I am tired of all the stealing of public money while we suffer.”

Voting stations in Katlehong, Thokoza and Vosloorus in Ekurhuleni experienced a slow start on Monday morning with fewer ...

“I voted the ANC. I will die in the ANC”, deputy president David Mabuza said after casting his vote in Barberton, ...

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

Thabo Lekalala, who is casting his vote at Mamelodi East Ward 93, said he was worried by the violence outside the ...

Many residents say the ruling party has provided a better life. Others are pinning their hopes on the new kid

GOOD leader Patricia de Lille stood in pouring rain for about 20 minutes to cast her vote at Pinelands Primary School ...

The municipal elections have revealed how dissimilar the needs of Capetonians are.

The beach, rather than the polls, lured some Durban residents as local government elections got under way on Monday.

The water crisis in Tshwane and electricity issues in Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni will become determining factors today ...

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

The red berets say they are not fussy about who they team up with in coalition governments.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to visit the national results operation centre on Thursday in his capacity as the ...

Cape Town mayor-elect Geordin Hill-Lewis has thanked Capetonians for giving the DA another mandate to govern the city.

Ready to govern is slowly becoming ready to co-govern in many municipalities across KwaZulu-Natal as political parties ...

The ANC in Gauteng finds itself in even deeper trouble as IEC results show it has so far failed to secure an outright ...

“It's not time to sweep things under the carpet," Democratic Independent leader Anwar Adams shouted as he disrupted ...

Just hours after its historic victory in KwaZulu-Natal's uMngeni municipality, the DA has issued a warning to the ...

The ruling party’s national electoral support in the municipal elections held on Monday came in at 46.05%, while it ...

"They want to live in a better South Africa with equal opportunity, where their rights are realised, and where they are ...

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

The party's provincial interim working committee acknowledged defeat in the city but celebrated the number of wards it ...

The man from the agricultural village of Sephaku in Limpopo who shocked many when he began campaigning to be a ...

Despite trying to block the party from holding its final election rally last week, residents of Senaoane and Dlamini in ...

The Electoral Commission (IEC) says the counting and capturing of votes is at an advanced stage as 99% of the results ...

"Keep my name out of it. You made your bed, these results are on you," said Maimane.

The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal believes that if it does not get its act together, the party will lose outright governance in ...