It’s done, the DA– with the help of the EFF — has taken charge of Johannesburg, finishing off the opposition’s Gauteng campaign.

ANC mayoral candidate for Johannesburg Parks Tau says, although he accepts the decision taken by the EFF to support a DA candidate, he believes the party made it in bad faith and will regret it if progress in the city stalls.

A few EFF members are protesting against the party’s post-election choices, but it’s what’s going on, on Twitter that’s really entertaining. Check it out.

Police are investigating the death of the DA’s Hannes Baaitjies, who was murdered just hours before he was to due to be sworn in and form a coalition government in the Kgatelopele Municipality.

The DA’s Solly Msimanga has started his tenure as mayor of Tshwane on the offensive, having already charged at the opposition ANC; now it seems he’s taking the fight straight to the top, suggesting a ban of the infamous blue light brigades.

For the first time since 1994 the ANC finds itself on the opposition benches, and its first order of is a brutal roasting on social media.

This week’s been one for the books folks. We started off with golden Wayde’s epic win at the Rio Olympics and Usain Bolt’s oh so entertaining response; and finished off with the unlikeliest of political alliances. Check it out.

Shortly after demanding to be let into the first Nelson Mandela Bay council meeting, ANC councillors got up and left in an attempt to disrupt proceedings.

While the EFF has assured the DA its support and in doing so helped the official opposition take control of Jozi and Tshwane; Malema still doesn’t like his new allies’ Johannesburg mayoral candidate.

The near chaotic first meeting of the new council of Nelson Mandela Bay metro on Thursday was eventually brought to order, after reported attempts by the ANC to stop the meeting from going ahead, followed by the party demanding to be let into the hall.

DA leader Mmusi Maimane has admitted to having some issues with Die Stem as part of our national anthem, but that any changes to it would have to follow Constitutional due process.

While Malema’s freedom fighters have refused any formal coalitions, the EFF has agreed to vote for the DA, giving the Alliance control of Tshwane, Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela Bay and Mogale City.

The Democratic Alliance might have lost out on a coalition with the Economic Freedom Fighters, but that didn’t stop them from making a similar arrangement with several other parties.

The EFF donated R1m to the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union’s (Amcu) Marikana trust fund, EFF leader Julius Malema announced during the Marikana commemoration in the North West on Tuesday.

The Democratic Alliance’s James Selfe has confirmed that coalition talks between the two parties were unsuccessful, leaving both municipalities in limbo.

Sources close to the three main political parties have revealed that the EFF won’t be forming coalitions with anybody, leaving the ANC and DA’s plans in tatters.

To the ANC’s horror, Jesus is said to be heading to Gauteng for his second comeback in less than two weeks.

The Democratic Alliance has wrestled control of Beaufort West away from the ANC by handing over control of three municipalities to smaller political parties in the Karoo district.

Gwede Mantashe has quashed any notion of replacing Zuma following the ANC’s poor performance in the Local Government Elections, this week anyway.

Whispers of a coalition between the DA and EFF in some Gauteng municipalities in essence mean that the ANC will have lost the entire province. Ain’t that a kick in the head..?

We the South African voters have spoken in the local government election, and we said many different things.

South Africa’s ruling party appears to be headed for its biggest electoral blow since it won power at the end of apartheid 22 years ago, with 95 percent of votes counted in local elections.

The Democratic Alliance mayoral candidate Athol Trollip gave a victory speech in Nelson Mandela Bay, much of it in isiXhosa.

The ruling party’s chief whip Jackson Mthembu has admitted that the ANC’s losses in this year’s Local Government Election are worrying.

A very sportsman-like Xolani Sotashe congratulated the Democratic Alliance for not only keeping control of the Western Cape, but also taking two traditionally ANC-controlled municipalities as well.