The African National Congress has described as “rather unfortunate” the move to the DA of Vivian Maphaphu. The former ANC stalwart, who served two terms as speaker in the Ndlambe Municipal Council, was warmly welcomed to the Democratic…
For the residents who filled the Dutch Reformed Church hall in Port Alfred on Monday night, the Democratic Alliance’s Samantha Graham-Maré could not have come at a better time. The deputy electricity minister brought grounding, and a…
PIET MARAIS The Democratic Alliance (DA) considers the 2026 municipal elections a pivotal opportunity for South Africa — and for communities like Ndlambe to reassess their path forward. Speaking at The Volo in Kenton-on-Sea this week,…
Political will in the face of strikes and go-slows, strong managers and directly addressing the real or manufactured obstacles in the way of good service are behind uMngeni Municipality’s reduction of its overtime bill from around R900…
Struggling to decide who will get your vote on 29 May? Talk of the Town reporter SIbulele Mtongana asks five political parties questions about their manifestos. This is Episode 3 of 5, in which she puts the DA’s provincial leader Andrew…
The politics of majoritarian triumphalism were evident at the inauguration of the new Ndlambe council on Tuesday November 23. Despite the platitudes of service delivery over politics by new council speaker Andile Marasi – one of the old…
There was an immediate power play in the newly inaugurated Ndlambe council on Tuesday November 23 as the ANC caucus took the executive committee portfolio positions it wanted and voted with the EFF to force the DA into the finance…
A few photographs of voting stations at Memorial Hall, Station Hill, Jauka Hall and Kuyasa Secondary School on Monday. Voting was peaceful and calm, but fewer people than hoped came out to vote. The final tally gives the ANC eight of the…
A local government election – like this one – is about service delivery. It’s not about education, policing (except insofar as it interacts with local issues), vaccine mandates or economic policy. Put simply: it’s about roads, water,…
Council meetings are few and far between, even more so during the past 18 months of various states of lockdown. And being able to report on them is more difficult, because they have all been virtual, which comes with technical glitches,…
The DA has slammed the Chris Hani District Municipality (CHDM) for allowing raw sewage to pollute the Great Fish River. “The unabated criminal flow of raw sewage into the Great Fish River is playing havoc with the livelihoods of farmers,…
DA leader John Steenhuisen says there is no good or bad faction in the ANC, but rather South Africans have been misled to believe there are two factions in the ANC and the “good” one is righting the wrongs of the “bad” one. Steenhuisen…
The DA has called for the return of UIF Ters payments for the duration of the alert level 3 lockdown, saying the fund will provide assistance to businesses whose operations continue to be affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. This after…
The DA has lost its court bid to overrule the government’s decision to close Garden Route beaches for the December holidays. The Western Cape High Court handed down the judgment on Tuesday. “While we are disappointed by the ruling in…
The Garden Route district municipality is to challenge government’s decision to shut its beaches from December 16 to January 3. This as the DA threatened to go to court if government did not sufficiently justify the decision. President…
