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Ramaphosa to ANC members: Let's go work for our supporters
The party has suffered a humiliating loss after it dropped its support to below 50% nationally.
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WATCH LIVE: Ramaphosa thanks communities for voting in municipal elections
The purpose of the event is to thank members of staff, volunteers, and communities in all forms for going out and exercising their democratic rights by participating in the 2021 local government elections.
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ANC and DA should explore coalitions in areas like Nelson Mandela Bay: Expert
Public management expert and researcher Crispian Olver says election results are an example of how coalitions will be permanent feature.
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ANALYSIS: SA voters are disillusioned, but haven’t found alternatives to the ANC
The elections are historic because they are the first since democracy’s advent in 1994 in which the governing ANC has won less than 50% of the national vote.
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ANC delegation to look into coalitions in hung municipalities in WC
With 15 hung municipalities in the Western Cape, the ANC is actively investigating where it can share power with other parties.
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DA’s Bhanga: ANC, EFF coalition in NMB is a recipe for disaster
The DA’s outgoing Nelson Mandela Bay Mayor Nqaba Bhanga said that collaboration would create further instability in the Eastern Cape’s economic hub and reverse the gains made by the previous administration.
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JUDITH FEBRUARY: Ramaphosa’s bid to keep ANC intact is teetering on the brink
Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘unity uber alles’ motivation has been snubbed by an electorate tired of impunity, tired of a lack of services, tired of talk and tired of corruption, writes Judith February.
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Bruised and battered: ANC still claims victory from municipal elections
Voters have punished the party, causing its biggest upset yet.
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Duarte: Election results are a message to the ANC to shape up
Speaking on 3 November 2021, the ANC's deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte said the low voter turnout and the party's poor results were a message to the party. Duarte said the ANC had heard the message loud and clear and was working on renewing itself.
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DA says it has retained Phoenix even after 'heroes' posters
The party has taken over the last ward from African National Congress (ANC).
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Mahikeng win sees ANC take control of 5 councils in NW
The ANC also won majority votes in the Mamusa, Naledi, Kgetleng and Maquassi Hills municipalities.
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With control of 4 councils, NW ANC misses out with hung council in Lekwa-Teemane
The party has governed much of the province to the point of complete collapse and now the ANC has failed to secure more than 50% of the seats at one of the five councils where it leads.
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DA set to keep control of Cape Town, but W Cape hinterland voters say no thanks
Coalitions will be the name of the game in the coming days due to smaller, often local, parties chipping away at support for both the DA and the ANC in areas outside the metro.
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ANC: We are not rushing into coalitions
Early results indicate that no party will get an outright majority in a number of metros and that they will have to work together.
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Duarte: We believe the elections were free and fair despite issues encountered
In a wide-ranging interview with Eyewitness News on Tuesday, the party's deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte said some of the instruments used for the polls could do with an improvement including the facilities used in poorer areas.
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Early indications suggest ANC losing ground to DA & EFF in Ekurhuleni
Ekurhuleni, which is considered an ANC stronghold, has been governed by the party through a coalition government since 2016.
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Mantashe: The ANC will always ask the public for more chances to do better
ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe said the party's showing in the last three elections was a sign of a "maturing democracy".
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WATCH LIVE: Duarte on ANC's election results so far
Eyewitness News Senior Political Reporter Tshidi Madia chats to ANC deputy secretary general Jessie Duarte on the 2021 local government elections.
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ANC wins 1 council out of 18 in North West as votes continue to come in
Results at the North West IEC’s Mahikeng operations centre trickled in Tuesday afternoon in after a slow start.
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ActionSA's Mashaba is adamant he will not enter into a coalition with the ANC
"When I entered this field of politics, leaving my comfortable business world, it was to unseat the ANC."
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40% of election results in, ANC bags 44 councils so far
The official opposition, Democratic Alliance will govern in 13 councils.
