Author: Larson Thebe

Silver Sibiya Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema, there was no effort on the part of African National Congress (ANC) President, Cyril Ramaphosa, to save Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni and Tshwane metropolitan municipalities. He was speaking during a media briefing in Johannesburg on Thursday, to give an update on the EFF’s approach to local government. For the first time since South Africa started holding democratic local government elections, the ANC is not governing any metro in Gauteng. “Cyril Ramaphosa the president of the ANC never bothered to talk to anyone because he thought he got this thing sealed. He was not…

-Silver Sibiya With about 270 councillors already sworn in at the City of Johannesburg, the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) Federal Council Chairperson, Helen Zille, admits this has been unpredictable in local government elections. She spoke to Newsnote during the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality elections in Brixton in Johannesburg. Shortly after this conversation the DA’s Tania Campbell was elected Ekurhuleni Metro mayor, beating the ANC’s Mzwandile Masina by 116 votes to 105. The DA’s Vasco da Gama was elected new Johannesburg Speaker, beating the ANC’s Eunice Mgcina. Voting for Johannesburg Executive Mayor was underway at the time of publishing. Zille said…

– Silver Sibiya With only 18% of the votes cast in the Joburg Metro counted so far, the ANC is leading with 34.57%, followed by the DA with 25.34%, while new kid on the block ActionSA is sitting in third place with 17.57%. These are just some of the results so far as the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) continues counting. It was widely predicted that there will be no outright winner in the City of Joburg, one of the hotly contested metros in the country. Political parties like the ANC and the EFF have committed to forming coalitions with anyone…