# 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 […]
# Build One South Africa says voting for a smaller party is not a wasted vote as the country marks International Day of Democracy, 50 days before local elections. The party’s Graham Charters says old parties’ benefit from the myth that only they are viable. He says South Africa is in a coalition era, and […]
# Die Workers and Socialist Party sê die Suid-Afrikaanse Kommunistiewe Party se besluit om onafhanklik aan die komende plaaslike verkiesing deel te neem, is ‘n stap in die regte rigting. Die party waarsku egter die SAKP se voortgesette deelname aan die Drieparty-alliansie met die ANC is tans die grootste struikelblok vir eenheid binne die werkersklas. […]
# The Workers and Socialist Party says the South African Communist Party’s decision to contest the upcoming local government elections independently is a step in the right direction. However, it cautions that the SACP’s continuation of the Tripartite Alliance with the ANC is today the single most important obstacle to working-class unity. The Workers and […]
