LUCKY MATHEBULA | Voters have spoken. Now comes the hard part: fixing the municipality
Times LIVE | 09.11.2026 04:30
South Africa’s voters have handed politicians a puzzle. In 213 of the 257 municipalities, no party has won enough support to govern alone. From Tshwane, the capital city, to the provincial seats of government, Cape Town, the capital of the Western Cape, is the only place where one party can rule unaided. Practically no manifesto earned an unqualified thumbs-up. Fragmented councils make fixing municipal government harder, and far more urgent.
