With election results trickling in, the ANC is still hopeful it can recover some lost ground — including maintaining control of Buffalo City and Mangaung, the only metros where it had outright majorities. With 15% of the votes counted, South Africa is heading for its closest-ever local election. Nationally, the ANC is on 31.7%, the DA on 31.0%, and the MK Party on 5.1% — a gap of just 0.7 percentage points between the two leading parties. In the metros,…

ActionSA is emerging as a key contender in Tshwane, where it is narrowly leading the ANC, while the Democratic Alliance (DA) maintains a strong lead across Gauteng’s other metros. With 12% of voting districts declared, ActionSA is ahead in Tshwane with 29% of the vote, just one percentage point ahead of the ANC at 28%. The DA is currently in third place with 19%. In Johannesburg, the DA is leading with 40% of the vote, followed by the ANC at…

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has called for legal reforms to prohibit businesses from trading on election day, arguing that declaring the day a public holiday is not enough to ensure equal access to voting. The party believes many people from poorer communities choose to work on election day to earn additional income, making it difficult for them to cast their ballots. EFF Treasurer-General and Tshwane mayoral candidate Omphile Maotwe made the remarks while speaking to the media in Montana,…