# The DA says the Electoral Court ruling dismissing the ANC’s appeal over the late submission of candidate lists upholds election deadlines and ensures the same rules apply to all political parties. The party’s Ashor Sarupen says the ANC is facing mounting internal and external pressure about this major operational failure. He says the court […]
# Die ANC het sy saak in die Verkiesingshof teen die Onafhanklike Verkiesingskommissie verloor rakende die laat indiening van kandidatetlyste vir ses munisipaliteite voor die plaaslike regeringsverkiesing. Die hof het die ANC se betoog verwerp dat die besonderhede van die 181 betrokke benoemings steeds as finale kandidatelyste aanvaar moet word. Die hof het die DA […]
# Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis launched his fourth pledge as part of the DA’s local government election campaign, to keep essential services reliable and affordable. He launched the pledge in Rocklands, Mitchell’s Plain, today. Hill-Lewis says in the last term the city quadrupled sewer pipe replacement to 100-kilometres a year and doubled fresh-water pipe […]
# The ANC has lost its Electoral Court challenge against the Electoral Commission over the late submission of candidate lists for six municipalities ahead of the 4 November local government elections. The court rejected the ANC’s argument that details of 181 affected nominations should still be accepted as final candidate lists. The court granted the […]
# Die DA sê die ANC se interne operasionele mislukkings moenie ʼn verskoning wees wat die party toelaat om die reëls vir indiening van kandidaatslyste voor die November-verkiesing te buig nie. Minstens 181 ANC-kandidate se name is nie voor die sperdatum van 28 Augustus op die Verkiesingskommissie se stelsel gelaai nie. Die party blameer ʼn […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa het 4 November 2026 as openbare vakansiedag verklaar. Altesaam 546 politieke partye sal op dié dag aan die plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing deelneem. Meer as 140-duisend kandidate is reg oor die land benoem om tien-duisend-526 raadsetels te betwis. Ramaphosa moedig alle geregistreerde kiesers aan om die vakansiedag te gebruik om hul demokratiese reg en […]
# The DA says the ANC’s internal operational failures should not be excused for the party to be allowed to bend the rules of candidate submission for the November local government elections. At least 181 ANC candidate names were not captured and uploaded on the IEC system before the deadline of the 28th of August. […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa has declared 4 November 2026, the day of the local government elections, a public holiday. A total of 546 political parties will contest the elections, while more than 140-thousand candidates have been nominated to contest ten-thousand-526 council seats across the country. Ramaphosa has called on all registered voters to use the […]
# Suid-Afrika vier vandag Internasionale Dag van Demokrasie en Build One South Africa sê 50-dae voor die plaaslike regeringsverkiesing ‘n stem vir ‘n kleiner party is nie ‘n verlore stem nie. Graham Charters van die party sê gevestigde partye baat by die wanopvatting dat slegs hulle ‘n werklike kans staan om te regeer. Hy sê […]
