PoliticsANC's Morero and Masuku miss out on Joburg council as party wins no PR seats
Reports say all 63 of the ANC's Johannesburg council seats are ward seats, leaving its list leaders, including Dada Morero, outside council.
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PoliticsMalema gives Zille until Wednesday to retract and apologise over City Power claims
Malema's lawyers give Zille until close of business Wednesday to retract and apologise over claims about Joburg's City Power, or face court action.
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PoliticsMashaba proposes DA run Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni, ActionSA Tshwane, but rules out Zille
ActionSA's Herman Mashaba has reportedly offered the DA a split of the three Gauteng metros, while saying he cannot work with Helen Zille.
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PoliticsANC lets provinces open 'exploratory' coalition talks ahead of Thursday's NEC meeting
A circular from secretary-general Fikile Mbalula allows provincial and regional ANC structures to hold localised talks with other parties in hung councils.
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PoliticsParliament resumes with Ramaphosa questions, Transnet and Mangaung prison on agenda
MPs return after the election break. Committees take up Transnet and the Mangaung prison contract, and Ramaphosa answers NCOP questions on Thursday.
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PoliticsIEC orders revote at Jabulani Community Hall in Siyancuma after ballot papers destroyed
The IEC says ballot papers were destroyed before counting at a Douglas voting district and has gone to the Electoral Court and opened a criminal case.
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PoliticsANC will not attend Council of the Left meeting, Mbalula says as coalition talks open
Secretary-general Fikile Mbalula says the ANC will skip Wednesday's meeting of left-leaning parties, as the party weighs opposition benches or minority rule.
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PoliticsActionSA opens coalition talks with ANC and EFF, still waiting on DA and MK dates
ActionSA says talks with the ANC began on Sunday and with the EFF on Monday, while meetings with the DA, MK and others are still to be scheduled.
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PoliticsRamaphosa calls resignation talk 'preposterous' as Mbalula says he is 'not going anywhere'
The president says he does not know where the rumours came from and that voters' verdict is accepted 'with humility'; the ANC secretary-general also denies it.
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PoliticsDA wins nine Western Cape councils outright as 16 hang and coalition talks loom
The DA has outright majorities in nine Western Cape municipalities, including Cape Town on 56.42%, while 16 councils are hung and need coalition deals.
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PoliticsANC centralises coalition talks under a national team led by Mbalula ahead of Thursday NEC
A circular bars ANC provinces and regions from concluding coalition deals without written sign-off from the secretary-general, as the NEC meets on Thursday.
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PoliticsGauteng's three metros: the seat numbers each party needs to govern
Johannesburg, Tshwane and Ekurhuleni all lack a majority. Here are the seat counts, the thresholds and the arithmetic of who could govern.
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