Elections
Malema: Disbandment of Limpopo structures was due to low votes during LGE
EFF leader Julius Malema on Tuesday confirmed the decision, which he announced to his party during its weekend plenum.
When naming her multi-party committee, the mayor also announced that negotiations with smaller parties had yielded a majority coalition government in Johannesburg.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) held talks with other parties to enter into the agreement, which saw the allocation of mayoral committee posts among different party officials, including those belonging to ActionSA and the Freedom Front Plus.
Joburg Mayor Mpho Phalatse has encouraged MMCs to set their political differences aside and focus on serving Joburg residents.
The multi-party agreement reached has seen the inclusion of councillors from ActionSA and the Freedom Front Plus, similar to the approach adopted in Joburg on Monday.
Joburg Mayor Mpho Phalatse said that the current situation of a hung council meant that everyone had to compromise.
The mayor made the announcement at a press briefing in Braamfontein on Monday following weeks of negotiations between political parties that earned the governing Democratic Alliance (DA) criticism over the delays.
This comes nearly a month after the swearing in of councillors in the hung metro with reports of deadlocks and disagreements within ActionSA and the Democratic Alliance’s coalition.
The South African National Editors' Forum is calling on law-enforcement agencies to investigate and arrest those threatening the lives of SABC's Lesedi FM journalists for covering the local government elections in the Free State.
The metro had been without mayoral committee members since parties such as ActionSA, Freedom Front Plus, UDM and EFF supported the DA to become the leading party.
Party constituency head in uMhlathuze Xolani Ngwezi has now taken over the mayoral position.
The party said it failed to provide adequate leadership leading to the bloodbath at the local government elections last month.
The ANC in Mpumalanga is reacting to the behaviour of Johan Mkhatshwa who ignored party instructions in his bid to return as Nkomazi mayor.
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba - whose mayoral ambitions were crushed - has confirmed the two parties met on Monday to discuss MMCs in Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni.
SABC management believes that SABC News covered the polls in line with its editorial policies and Icasa's election regulations.
African National Congress (ANC) head of elections, Fikile Mbalula, that the party had started to evaluate what went wrong, adding that their biggest loss came from Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
President Cyril Ramaphosa said that those elected to councils should put the interests of people first and not their parties.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema said that although they had been insulted by the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the past, their focus was on saving South Africa from the African National Congress (ANC).
He was briefing the media on Thursday after talks on coalitions following the municipal elections.