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Voters queue to cast their ballots at the Joubert Park voting station in Johannesburg on 1 November 2021. Picture: Mia Lindeque/Eyewitness News

2021 municipal elections

'It's getting worse' - Joubert Park voters just want stable power, water supply

By Mia Lindeque

There was a steady queue at Joubert Park, Gauteng's largest voting station, where voters said they did not want to check schedules to determine whether they...

  • Voters making their way inside the Earlington Secondary School voting station in Phoenix to cast their votes on 1 November 2021. Picture: Nhlanhla Mabaso/Eyewitness News

    After deadly Phoenix violence, residents want their vote to make a difference

    Most of them have told Eyewitness News that they wanted to see change in the troubled township.

    236 days ago
  • Democratic Alliance (DA) Cape Town mayoral candidate Geordin Hill-Lewis (left) and his wife, Carla, cast their votes at the Edgemead Community Hall on 1 November 2021. Picture: Lauren Isaacs/Eyewitness News

    DA's CT mayoral candidate Hill-Lewis encouraged by voter turnout in Edgemead

    Democratic Alliance (DA) Cape Town mayoral candidate Geordin Hill-Lewis cast his vote at the Edgemead Community Hall on Monday morning.

    236 days ago
  • An IEC official sets up a banner at the Goodwood Park Primary voting station in Cape Town on 1 November 2021. Picture: Lauren Isaacs/Eyewitness News

    GALLERY: SA heads to the polls in local govt elections

    South Africans head to the polls t make their mark in the country's sixth local government elections.

    236 days ago
  • Potholes in Mahikeng. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Residents taking over failing municipalities not a long-term solution - experts

    In some parts of the country, residents have taken matters into their own hands, successfully persuading the courts to take away from councils some of their powers and functions, as well as budget, and give them to concerned citizens to fix crumbling infrastructure.

    243 days ago
  • FILE: A voter placing their ballot paper inside a ballot box after casting their vote at the Rantailane Secondary School, in Ga-Rankuwa on 19 May 2021. Picture: Boikhutso Ntsoko/Eyewitness News

    RAMAPHOSA: Elections an opportunity for people to make voices heard

    President Cyril Ramaphosa urged South Africans to approach their civic duty to vote in local government elections with the same enthusiasm they would with national elections as it was an opportunity to make their voices heard and to hold elected representatives accountable.

    243 days ago
  • FILE: An Independent Electoral Officer (IEC) opens a ballot box as counting begins at the Addington Primary School after voting ended at the sixth national general elections in Durban, on 8 May 2019. Picture: AFP

    Municipal polls likely to yield more coalition govts than in 2016, say analysts

    Coalition governments are a fact of life in South Africa, thanks to its proportional system of representation, while the impact of low voter turnout on the once-mighty African National Congress (ANC) makes hung councils more, not less, inevitable in municipalities across the country.

    250 days ago
  • FILE: Voting station presiding officer supervising voters as they arrive at a voting station to vote in the by-elections in Ward 30, at Rantailane Secondary School in Ga-Rankuwa on 19 May, 2021. Picture: Boikhutso Ntsoko/EWN.

    Angry residents say voting has become meaningless

    As South Africa gears up for the local government elections on 1 November, disgruntled voters in Tshwane and Ekurhuleni say they have little reason to cast their ballots.

    263 days ago
  • The IFP leadership at the launch of the party's election manifesto on 30 September 2021. Picture: @IFPinParliament/Twitter

    IN FULL: Velenkosini Hlabisa's IFP manifesto speech

    Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Velenkosini Hlabisa delivered the keynote speech at the party's manifesto launch for the 1 November local government elections.

    267 days ago
  • ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa at the launch of the ANC elections manifesto at Church Square in Pretoria on 27 September 2021. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Implementing ANC resolution on corruption has been challenging - Ramaphosa

    African National Congress (ANC) president Ramaphosa was speaking at the party's post-election manifesto briefing on Wednesday evening.

    268 days ago
  • ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa at the launch of the ANC elections manifesto at Church Square in Pretoria on 27 September 2021. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Ramaphosa: ANC committed to making sure municipal staff are competent

    President Cyril Ramaphosa noted that the ANC had involved communities in the selection of its candidates and as a result, they enjoyed the confidence of the people they were expected to serve as they were rooted in the communities and had strong service records.

    270 days ago
  • ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa launches the party's election manifesto in Tshwane on 27 September 2021. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    South Africans want ANC to correct its mistakes and serve all people - Ramaphosa

    Cyril Ramaphosa was speaking at the launch of the ANC’s local government elections manifesto at Pretoria’s Church Square on Monday, where former presidents, Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe, were also in attendance.

    270 days ago
  • ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa on the campaign trail in Ekurhuleni on 28 September 2021. Picture: @MbalulaFikile/Twitter

    Embattled ANC hopes manifesto launch can lead to improved showing in polls

    The party is faced with the difficult task of trying to win back control of several metros it lost in 2016.

    270 days ago
  • Democratic Alliance (DA) Leader John Steenhuisen addresses supporters at the party's virtual rally on 22 May, 2021. Picture: DA.

    DA going into local govt elections without a clear plan - analyst

    Political analyst Ralph Mathekga said that the Democratic Alliance (DA) still had many voters to convince.

    274 days ago
  • DA leader John Steenhuisen. Picture: @Our_DA/Twitter

    DA: Election manifesto will be blueprint for changing SA's cities, towns

    Party leader John Steenhuisen said that the biggest failures in local government were in small municipalities, which should be a focus area.

    274 days ago
  • ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte at a media briefing on 22 September 2021. Pictures: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Duarte: ANC worried about repeat of Inanda shootings happening at polls

    The party’s deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte on Wednesday said that they were concerned but believed that the ANC had to continue trying to assist communities to move away from the violence, especially when it came to dealing with women.

    275 days ago
  • Picture: @GAUTENGCOPE/Facebook

    Cope names mayoral candidates for Joburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni

    The candidates were announced by the party chairperson in Gauteng, Tom Molefe, who expressed confidence that should their candidates win, they would lead with distinction.

    275 days ago
  • IFP national campaign committee Chairperson Narend Singh and IFP national Spokesperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa addressing the media on 22 Sepetmber on the party's readiness for the upcoming local government elections. Picture:

    IFP is election ready - Narend Singh

    The party will launch its election manifesto next week Thursday.

    275 days ago
  • FILE: Cosatu President Zingiswa Losi. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Cosatu: While we campaign for ANC, we are also defending collective bargaining

    The federation’s affiliates are unhappy with the government following its reneging on the public sector wage deal last year with some of its biggest unions also having refused to be party to this year’s deal which it said was an attack on collective bargaining.

    276 days ago
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