Will you be voting? Why analyst predicts the ‘strangest election since 1994’

The Citizen | 02.11.2026 09:52
Political analyst Ebrahim Fakir says South Africa’s 2026 local government elections will be “one of the strangest South African elections since 1994”, arguing that the poll is shaping up as an election of “stabilisation, recovery, and rehabilitation” amid what he describes as a crisis of representation and responsiveness.