2025

CoGTA Minister Velenkosini Hlabisa Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Velenkosi Hlabisa says consultations are under way with the Electoral Commission on choosing the date for the 2026 local government elections.   The current term will expire on the 1st of November 2026.  Politicians would become Father Xmas if elections held in Jan:Hlabisa Hlabisa says the elections must therefore be held between 2 November 2026 and 30 January 2027.   He says…

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula. The African National Congress (ANC) says it has no plans to replace Dada Morero with Loyiso Masuku as Johannesburg mayor. This follows Masuku’s recent election as the new ANC Greater Johannesburg regional chairperson, defeating the incumbent Morero in an internal party vote. ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says being a chairperson of…

A police officer seen outside a voting station The Electoral Commission (IEC) is expecting over 4 400 municipal wards that will participate in the next  Local Government Elections (LGE). This comes after the Municipal Demarcation Board officially handed over the final electoral wards to the IEC, for the 2026/27 local elections, and this paves the…

The SACP flag. Tensions between the African National Congress (ANC) and its alliance partner, the South African Communist Party (SACP), are raising concerns about a growing contestation over the ownership and interpretation of key ideological frameworks within the tripartite alliance. Political commentator Xolelwa Kashe-Katiya believes the SACP should ideally remain central in discussions on the…