# The Electoral Commission says it is comfortably ahead of schedule with the technical preparations for the local government elections. It has been allocated just over 3.1-billion-rand for the 2026/27 financial year, and expects to spend 4.7-billion-rand, which leaves a 1.6-billion-rand deficit. This will be partly offset by a 1.1-billion-rand rollover from the previous year, […]
# Die Suid-Afrikaanse Kommunistiese Party sê hulle is deur die ANC in die duister gehou. Dit volg terwyl lede wat lidmaatskap van die ANC en SAKP het vanaf Donderdag tien dae gegun sal word om te besluit vir wie hulle in die komende plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing sal stemme werf. Die stap kom terwyl die SAKP voorberei om […]
# The South African Communist Party says it has been blindsided by the ANC. This comes as dual members of the ANC and SACP will be given ten days from Thursday to indicate who they will campaign for in the upcoming local government elections. The move comes as the SACP prepares to contest the elections […]
# Die IVP het besluit om sy provinsiale en nasionale konferensies tot volgende jaar uit te stel ter wille van aaneenskakeling en bestendigheid in aanloop tot die plaaslike regeringsverkiesing. Die termyn van die huidige leierskap het in Augustus 2024 verstryk, maar die party het besluit om nie nuwe leiers te verkies nie omdat hy deel […]
# The IFP has resolved to move its national and provincial conferences to early next year, citing a need to ensure continuity and stability ahead of the local government elections. The current leadership’s term of office lapsed in August 2024, but the party opted not to elect new leaders as it had recently entered the […]
# Die MK-party vra dat die komende plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing uitgestel word hangende sy saak oor stemknoeiery by die OVK. Die party beweer wydverspreide knoeiery met stemme het in die algemene verkiesing in 2024 voorgekom. Hy glo hy moes na regte die verkiesing wen. Die party sê tegniese foute het veroorsaak dat sy uitslae vir twee ure […]
# The MK Party is calling for the upcoming local government elections to be delayed pending its vote-rigging case by the IEC. The party alleged widespread rigging of the 2024 general election results, which it said it had won. It cited technical glitches that caused the results to disappear from the national results dashboard for […]
# Die ANC se sekretaris-generaal, Fikile Mbalula, sê lede van die Suid-Afrikaanse Kommunistiese Party sal tien dae kry om te antwoord of hulle vir die ANC of vir hul party veldtog sal voer. Die SAKP het besluit om onafhanklik, buite die Drieparty-Alliansie, aan die plaaslikeregeringsverkiesing deel te neem. Mbalula sê daar sal gevolge wees vir […]
# ANC secretary general, Fikile Mbalula, says members of the South African Communist Party will be given ten days to respond on whether they will be campaigning for the ANC or for their party. The SACP has resolved to contest the local government elections independently, outside of the Tripartite Alliance. Mbalula says there will be […]
