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In KwaZulu-Natal, the votes of next week’s by-election will be a test of whether the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party is able to consolidate — at local government level — the electoral gains made on 29 May, when it took 45% of the vote in the province. (Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

MK party set to test electoral gains in 23 by-elections next week

The battered Economic Freedom Fighters has not fielded candidates for any Durban by-elections

Discrepancies on audited election results anger opposition parties

PADDY HARPER: Frivolous candidates and jokers in parliament

Independents will need budgets to match their egos if they are to contest the elections

In an appeal posted on the party’s social media, EFF president Julius Malema called on supporters to donate online, saying that  “all peace-loving South Africans, revolutionaries from the African continent and the diaspora are implored to finance the revolution”. (Photo by Laird Forbes/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

ActionSA, EFF crowdfund ahead of next year’s poll

Parties want members to cough for their coming election campaign

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

Possible partner: Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema protests at the state of the nation address in Cape Town in February. (Esa Alexander/AFP)

ANC coalition debate expected to be the next proxy in factional battle

National executive committee members are at odds over a coalition with the EFF, with some vowing to lobby party leaders against the arrangement

Despite a high court ruling removing unlawfully-elected ANC mayor Dada Morero, the ANC still managed to score itself five new Johannesburg council chairperson positions on Thursday as it cemented its new-found strength in the city. (Photo by Papi Morake/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

ANC cements its numbers in City of Johannesburg council

The Patriotic Alliance and Economic Freedom Fighters ditch the Democratic Alliance during the election of council chairpersons

Energy minister Jeff Radebe. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

​‘Presidential’ Radebe saves ANC coalition with AIC

Both parties have agreed to set timelines for the introduction of provincial legislature Bills to amend the border after the next meeting on March 15.

Ndumiso Madlala

Broken promise threatens ANC’s hold on Ekurhuleni, Rustenburg

An abandoned agreement could spell doom for the AIC and ruling party coalition.

Applications for 2017 community service and internship positions for medical graduates have just closed but were delayed as provinces scrambled to find money to open posts

A tiny party throws the ANC a bone during post-election coalition bartering

The little-known AIC helps the ruling party clinch Ekurhuleni and Rustenberg — and the price rectifies the decade-old Matatiele boundary dispute.

AIC or ANC? Unknown party to win Parliament seats

The relatively unknown AIC, a party with a name and logo "reminiscent" to the ANC, has leapt ahead of Agang SA to gain two seats in Parliament.