President Cyril Ramaphosa said that those elected to councils should put the interests of people first and not their parties.
Addressing the media on 25 November 2021, ANC head of elections Fikile Mbalula expressed that the party held no grudges against those who voted against it and that it had to focus on renewal, otherwise it would die. #Elections2021 #LGE2021 #ANC
As time runs out for municipalities to be formed, many hung municipalities and metros are still in the balance as parties struggle to agree on the way forward.
By law, councillors have to hold their first council meeting within 14 days of the election results being declared but given that political parties are not reaching agreements for coalitions, this period seems to be too short.
The DA has eight seats in council, while the ANC has seven, but the ANC does have a national agreement with the Patriotic Alliance that has two seats. The EFF has one seat, along with the Knysna Independent Movement and a party called Plaaslike Besorgde Inwoners.
The Democratic Alliance (DA), Action SA, FF Plus, UDM and ACDP have been negotiating possible coalitions that will be needed to form governments in dozens of hung municipalities across the country.
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is briefing the media on its coalition talks in hung municipalities across the country.
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader John Steenhuisen is giving an update on the party's coalition talks for hung municipalities, particularly for metros in Gauteng.
Leaders of political parties met in Sandton on Monday aiming to hammer out deals in the key hung metros of Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni.
Herman Mashaba lead the City of Johannesburg as mayor between 2016 and 2019 but then resigned from the DA after a controversial fallout.
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba said that if the Democratic Alliance (DA) wanted to talk coalitions with his party, his former party needed to prove that it would treat black people in poor communities better than those it served in the Western Cape.
Good party leaders said that they had considered their options and had looked at how potential coalitions with other parties would work and they had concluded that the best way that residents stood to benefit from the party was if it was the opposition and only that.
IFP president Velenkosini Hlabisa said that they only wanted honest partners.
The election results showed that the African National Congress (ANC) still dominated in the country’s 213 municipalities, having achieved a majority in 161 of them but it saw a decline in majority support, to below 50%.
Political parties give their reactions after the Independent Electoral Commission released election results on 4 November 2021, in Tshwane. Parties are already approaching each other for coalitions after the commission announced that 66 municipalities were hung. #LGE2021 #Elections2021 #IEC
The fierce battle will climax in coming weeks after they failed to win an outright majority in six out of eight of them.
With the elections declared free and fair, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said that the African National Congress (ANC) still dominated in the country’s 213 municipalities, having achieved a majority in 161 of them.
With 15 hung municipalities in the Western Cape, the ANC is actively investigating where it can share power with other parties.
