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.
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.
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.
Well that’s that then isn’t it? Malema has confirmed that the ANC failed to meet the red berets’ demands, so a coalition is a no-go.
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.
Juju told Marikana residents that the EFF has always been there for them, not only when it was popular.
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.
Gwede Mantashe has quashed any notion of replacing Zuma following the ANC’s poor performance in the Local Government Elections, this week anyway.
The interviews for the public protector position got off to a shaky start on Thursday, after EFF chief whip Floyd Shivambu called for the shortlisting process to be re-opened.
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..?
From blasting the ANC’s campaign spend to talking about ANN7, EFF leader Julius Malema did not mince his words when he spoke to the press on Friday.
EFF deputy Floyd Shivambu was less than impressed by an ANN7 journalist – one of the few left after the Gupta-owned company’s latest purge –, refusing an interview with her outright.
While only 7 000 000 votes have been counted, the battle between the DA and ANC has already drawn some clear lines and it would seem that polling data in the run-up to LGE2016 was correst.
The leaders of the ANC, DA and EFF – President Jacob Zuma, Mmusi Maimane and Julius Malema – pulled out all stops in their parties’ final local government election rallies at the weekend. But that included stretching the truth.
Less than a day left before folks vote and politicians are making one last dash to grab a few votes for themselves.
Hey, stranger things have happened in South African politics…
No white men means no food, an EFF supporter in King William’s Town said.
The world is closely watching South Africa’s upcoming elections, deeming them “the most closely contested since white minority rule ended in 1994”.
Thabo Mabotja, from Ward 7 in Tshwane, was found to have violated the electoral code.
EFF leader Julius Malema hit out at the ANC for reportedly spending more than R1 billion on this year’s Local Government Election campaign, yet students are protesting against tuition fees.
By now, less than a week before the 2016 local government elections and more than two months since The Conversation had published Co-Pierre Georg’s article, Why Julius Malema’s EFF Doesn’t Offer South Africans a Way Out of Poverty, I had hoped that someone, especially from the EFF, would have engaged him.
Zuma was due campaign in Marikana, but at the last minute pulled out just as residents were planning a hostile reception for the ANC.