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Ekurhuleni mayor Nkosindiphile Xhakaza. (Papi Morake/Gallo Images)

EFF changes tune on removal of Ekurhuleni mayor

The Economic Freedom Fights won’t back a motion to remove Nkosindiphile Xhakaza, despite acknowledging the same concerns raised by opposition parties about his leadership

Action SA leader Herman Mashaba. (Photo by Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

Tshwane power shift: ActionSA poised for mayoral position, ANC gets speaker in deal to oust DA

It is still not clear exactly who ActionSA will field as its preferred candidate

Voter turnout in 2021 was poor at less than 50%. While the Multi-Party Charter seems to be gaining ground, newcomers Change Starts Now may rattle the DA in the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal’s uMkhonto weSizwe is set to take votes from the ANC. Photo: Getty

Battle for South Africa: will this be the year of the opposition?

The biggest opposition parties are intent on usurping the ANC’s power by forming alliances with smaller left and right wing parties

Moonshot

Can coalitions stabilise the economy?

With the right amount of planning, political coalitions can work – and even create the environment for better economic solutions

Former DA leader Mmusi Maimane.  (David Harrison/M&G)

Mmusi Maimane looks set to join ‘moonshot coalition’

The party leader is one of the participants on a five-day German tour to learn how coalitions are managed in that country

On the dotted line: Kenneth Meshoe, leader of the African Christian Democratic Party, which will be signing up for the multi-party coalition set up to depose the ANC in the national and provincial elections to be held next year. Photo: Jeffrey Abrahams/Gallo Images/Getty Images

ACDP preparing to join multiparty opposition coalition

Tensions over Tshwane between ActionSA and the Democratic Alliance are not expected affect the multi-party pact

Pay dirt: (Left to right) IFP chief whip Narend Singh, IFP provincial chair Thami Ntuli, DA provincial chair Dean Macpherson, and DA deputy chair Sithembiso Ngema. The two parties’ cooperation agreement is paying off in KwaZulu-Natal. Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images

DA/IFP coalition makes more gains in Umhlathuze by-election

The two parties hope to unseat the ANC next year through their pre-election cooperation agreement

When courts dismiss violence on the basis of occupation, the message is clear: sex workers’ lives matter less.

Sex work decriminalisation postponed

While some lobbyists have welcomed the delay, others believe it will have negative consequences

Action SA chairperson Michael Beaumont. (Photo by Gallo Images/Papi Morake)

R500m election kitty: moonshot, money shot or long shot?

Funders are concerned about the fragmented opposition but party leaders are adamant that they and not donors are driving the process

Former Joburg mayor Mpho Phalatse. Photographer: Guillem Sartorio/Bloomberg via Getty Images

EXPLAINER: Musical chairs in the City of Johannesburg

At the 2021 local government elections, neither of the two biggest parties got a mandate to govern alone in Johannesburg

Divine silence: Jacob Zuma (centre) receives blessing from pastors and preachers at an inter-faith gathering held in May 2017 to pray for him, at the height of state capture. He resigned as president nine months later, after pressure from the ANC itself. Photo: Rajesh Jantilal/AFP/Getty Images

God in politics: Divine boundaries exist in secular South Africa

The country is hyper religious but has prided itself on not talking politics at the church table

(John McCann/M&G)

South African coalition politics doesn’t have to be a ‘dirty game’

For politics to benefit us all, we will have to build practical wisdom. In other words, we must be focused on ethical behaviour

Vytjie Mentor.

State capture whistleblower Vytjie Mentor dies

The former ANC MP and activist had been ill since June

ActionSA councillor and former deputy mayor Nasiphi Moya has been elected as the new mayor of Tshwane through a secret ballot. (Photo by Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

ActionSA rakes in R16.9m in just three months

Mashaba’s one-year-old party comes in second behind the ANC’s income, but ahead of the DA

The EFF has decided to close all talks with the ANC. (Photo by Shiraaz Mohamed/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Collapsed: EFF leaves coalition negotiating table with the ANC

The EFF has decided to close all talks with the ANC; meanwhile, the DA has not made any headway in talks with ActionSA as time runs out for councils to elect leaders

Bonginkosi Madikizela said more seats in the provincial legislature would also mean smaller political parties would be better represented. (David Harrison/M&G)

ANC agrees to discuss more seats in Western Cape

The ANC in the Western Cape has agreed, in principle, to discuss a move to call for the increase in the number of seats for elected public representatives. Following an interim…

Knysna mayor Mark Willemse

DA wants its mayor out – he won’t go

Despite the DA having more seats in Knysna, the ANC has chosen the town’s mayor

The DA take an early lead in the Western Cape. (Paul Botes/M&G)

EARLY DA LEAD SET TO HOLD IN THE WESTERN CAPE

Speaking at the Western Cape results centre, the DA’s Premier candidate Alan Winde says his party is not celebrating just yet

Mentor says she’s not been promised a seat in the National Assembly and joins the party as a volunteer. (David Harrison/M&G)

Vytjie to put her cross next to the cross

Mentor says it is her Christian faith which attracted her to the party, after becoming disenchanted with the ANC.

Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, the EFF’s national spokesperson. (Katlego Sekgothe/M&G)

EFF calls on Gordhan to resign over Eskom blunders

The Red Berets say the public enterprises minister was a member of the Cabinet which led to Eskom’s failure