NEWS RELATED TO Local/municipal elections

From rugby to politics: Peter de Villiers to try out as GOOD mayoral candidate

Education

Here are the revised final matric exams dates

Elections 2021: Security cluster vows to protect voters after Inanda political killings

Elections 2021: Like the ANC, EFF needs to drop ‘anti-white rhetoric’ – analyst

Opinion

Please register to vote, correctly, or lose out

Politics

KZN remains SA’s political killing fields

Politics

ANC facing its most testing election since 1994, despite lifeline

ANC ‘on track’ to meet new IEC deadline for candidate lists despite disputes

Elections 2021: Here are the sanctions if parties are caught spreading disinformation

Elections 2021: Covid-19 forces parties to get creative in their campaigning

ANC certain it doesn’t need Magashule for election success

Opinion

Hasty poll won’t be free or fair

Politics

EFF demands dedicated team from SABC to cover its election campaign

Politics

Citizens urged to collect IDs from Home Affairs ahead of local elections

Few political parties launch manifestos as election looms

Steenhuisen pleads with Joburg residents to give DA outright majority in local elections

Numsa’s political party ‘deeply sorry’ for sitting out local elections

EFF survives on money from Parliament, IEC and party levies, says Malema

If we want a better country, we must change it ourselves

Politics

EFF joins DA in court bid to oppose reopening of candidate registration

No South Africans, no business, says Mashaba in election campaign

South Africa

Daily news update: New date for elections, North West hospital and hotel on fire and more trouble for Hamilton Ndlovu

Dlamini-Zuma proclaims 1 November as new date for local elections

‘Bending to the ANC’: DA fires salvo at IEC over reopening of candidate registrations

ConCourt Judgment on elections brings back hope

‘If ANC wins elections, it will deploy right people,’ says Duarte

Politics

Parties urged to ‘think out of box’ for polls

‘No special treatment’: ANC rejects claims it influenced IEC to reopen registrations

Parties gear up to deliver kill shot to ‘wounded’ ANC in local elections

Local Government elections: A seasonal change in our hands

IEC throws ANC a lifeline – DA to oppose reopening of candidate registrations

Local elections: IEC to reopen candidate registration process

WATCH LIVE: IEC briefs media on ConCourt elections ruling

Van Damme joins anti-disinformation project ahead of elections

Local elections: IEC to announce the way forward, after ConCourt ruling

Electoral process unlikely to start over, says expert

Politics

Will ANC ever reveal candidates with elections set to proceed?

Elections must go ahead as planned, ConCourt rules

ANC NEC’s weekend headache: Elections, cashflow problems on the agenda

How long will it take before the ANC pays the price?

Elections without ANC would be ‘disastrous’, says political expert

‘You had ample time,’ IEC tells ANC

Will ANC’s risky bet on postponement of local elections pay off?

Poll delay will benefit ailing ANC

Let’s make elections count for change and uplift the poor

Local elections: ANC KZN backs Duarte over reopening of IEC registration window

ANC’s ‘flimsy excuse’ for missing deadline an attempt to hide party divisions

ANC to approach Electoral Court to force IEC to reopen candidate registration

Tshwane ANC accused of trickery involving candidates list submitted to IEC

‘There is no longer lockdown for EFF’: Malema says they won’t follow ‘nonsense’

Local elections: EFF promise ‘formidable fight’ in all 257 municipalities in SA

Mayor Matongo wants to clean up Joburg’s streets and governance

Politics

IEC slips into gear despite hoping for ConCourt postponement

Politics

Local government elections: DA, GOOD and IFP announce mayoral candidates

Politics

ANC will not be drawn into DA’s ‘mind games’ and reveal mayoral candidates – Duarte

DA willing to work with any party in SA but with conditions, says Steenhuisen

Deadline looms for parties to submit candidate lists for local elections

DA announces mayoral candidates, challenges ANC to reveal their list

Courts

ANC says IEC was asleep at the wheel, after changing its own mind

Local govt elections: Covid-19 not a good enough reason for postponement

Politics

Ahead of local polls, Ekurhuleni’s Masina concedes that coalitions will persist in SA

Politics

Maimane joins DA in opposing IEC’s application to postpone elections

Politics

IEC pushing for election postponement to cover its tardiness, claims Zille

ANC to join IEC’s ConCourt bid to postpone local elections

Election proclamation has implications, says IEC

Politics

Update: NDZ officially gazettes elections for 27 October

Voter registration postponed, but delay may not be ideal for Covid-19 cases to decline, says IEC

Malema pleads EFF’s case: October local elections ‘will not be free and fair’

Opinion

There’s little time left for ANC before elections

Local elections in the balance in the face of level 4 lockdown

IEC denies claims it is hellbent on elections at all cost

It will cost parties more than R400K to contest local elections

‘IEC thinks its untouchable’ : Malema lays into IEC officials and ANC over local elections

Ramaphosa to face NCOP questions on local elections, economy, infrastructure

More than 200 political parties to contest municipal elections