The African National Congress (ANC) is engaging the Democratic Alliance (DA), Build One South Africa, ActionSA, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and uMkhonto weSizwe Party in a closed meeting in Midrand, Johannesburg, to finalise coalitions in hung municipal councils in Gauteng.
Political parties have 14 days, starting today, to constitute councils through coalitions.
Outcomes of last week’s local government elections have left the ANC with a bloody nose, with the DA and ActionSA the primary winners.
Across South Africa, no party managed to win an outright majority in 139 councils out of the available 213 municipalities, including seven metro municipalities.
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Meanwhile, in Cape Town, the South African Communist Party (SACP), an ANC tripartite alliance partner, has concluded its augmented Provincial Executive Council meeting.
During the meeting, the SACP resolved not to work with the DA, which it describes as neoliberal, or the right-wing Freedom Front Plus.