1+ week, 2+ day ago   (365+ words) – September 3, 2026 The chart below shows support for the ANC set against the number of hung councils after each local government election since 2000. The data for 2026 are based on polling from The Common Sense, in conjunction with the Social Research Foundation,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (487+ words) – August 25, 2026 Eight in ten South Africans say that they live in communities where people are taking over the responsibilities of the government. Eighty percent of respondents agreed that people in their community were taking over the responsibilities of the government…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (441+ words) – August 20, 2026 “We’re going after them. Not as agents of broken local governments, but as individual delinquents.” This is the message from the Democratic Alliance (DA) in laying criminal charges against the municipal managers of nine of South Africa’s most dysfunctional…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (430+ words) – August 14, 2026 When this newspaper polled the MKP last month it found a most striking thing. Among black South Africans the party now attracts two thirds of the support attracted by the African National Congress (ANC). Speaking to the guests of…...