# President Cyril Ramaphosa says the country is ready for next month’s local government elections, with operational preparations in place. A total of 142-thousand-and-72 candidates have been nominated to contest ten-thousand-526 council seats across municipalities. These include 636 independent candidates, 97-thousand-815 ward candidates and 38-thousand-679 proportional representation candidates. Ramaphosa says he has confidence in the […]
# The GOOD Party says the DA is taking a harder stance on undocumented immigrants ahead of the local government elections next month. The party has criticised DA Tshwane mayoral candidate Cilliers Brink for leading an armed raid with private security officers targeting people allegedly living in the country illegally. GOOD’s Brett Herron says immigration […]
# Die GOOD-party sê die DA teen ongedokumenteerde immigrante voor volgende maand se plaaslike regeringsverkiesing is ongeregverdig. Die party het die DA se Tshwane-burgemeesterskandidaat, Cilliers Brink, gekritiseer omdat hy ‘n gewapende klopjag saam met privaat veiligheidsbeamptes gelei het wat gerig was op mense wat na bewering onwettig in die land woon. Brett Herron van GOOD […]
# Die DA-leier in die Oos-Kaap, Andrew Whitfield, sê die party het fondse opsygesit om die veldtogte van vier bykomende burgemeesterskandidate te ondersteun in munisipaliteite waar die ANC versuim het om kandidatelyste in te dien. Die kandidate ding mee in Sondagsriviervallei, Walter Sisulu, Port St Johns en Ingquza Hill. Whitfield sê die burgemeesterskandidate het hul […]
# Build One South Africa verwag ‘n sterk vertoning in Johannesburg en Tshwane tydens die plaaslike verkiesing op 4 November. Die leier van BOSA, Mmusi Maimane, het aan die SABC gesê Gauteng het ‘n kernbelangrike deel van die party se voetspoor geword, met vordering wat ook in Limpopo en Kaapstad aangeteken is. Hy het beklemtoon […]
# DA Eastern Cape leader Andrew Whitfield says the party has set aside funds to support campaigns by four additional mayoral candidates in municipalities where the ANC failed to submit candidate lists. The candidates are contesting Sundays River Valley, Walter Sisulu, Port St Johns and Ingquza Hill. Whitfield says the mayoral candidates outlined their pledges […]
# Build One South Africa expects a strong performance in Johannesburg and Tshwane in the November 4 local government elections. Bosa leader Mmusi Maimane told the SABC that Gauteng has become a key part of the party’s footprint, with progress also recorded in Limpopo and Cape Town. He emphasised that BOSA will build one South […]
# Die Sentrum vir Ontwikkeling en Onderneming sê die agteruitgang van die Stad Johannesburg is nie slegs die gevolg van swak bestuur of munisipale onbevoegdheid nie. In sy jongste verslag, getiteld ‘Time for Action – Corruption in Joburg‘, wys die sentrum op ‘n gevestigde netwerk van politieke, sake- en misdaadbelange wat met die plaaslike regering […]
# The Centre for Development and Enterprise says the decline of the City of Johannesburg is not only a result of weak administration or municipal incompetence. In its latest report titled ‘Time for Action – Corruption in Joburg’, the centre notes an entrenched network of political, business, and criminal interests that have intersected local government, […]
