Sune Payne

With less than 20 days to go before the polls, PA leader Gayton McKenzie has made changes to his party's electoral efforts, including bringing “reinforcements” to Cape Town and banning local media from interacting with the party.

The MK Party has once again made several parliamentary changes to its caucus, appointing four new whips, including a previous chief whip, to keep the party's group of 58 MPs in check.

Only 27% of respondents in the Western Cape have institutional trust in local government, a pre-election survey by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) found.

The ANC Women's League is not backing down from its call for the party's national chairperson, Gwede Mantashe, to apologise for his crass response to a question on sex for jobs.

The ANC has directed it national chairperson, Gwede Mantashe, to offer a sincere apology for his response to complaints that a councillor demanded sex for jobs.

Less than one week after the MK Party informed Parliament of the appointment of new whips, party leader Jacob Zuma has now removed the very same whips after he fired Sibonelo Nomvalo as the party's secretary-general.

Brothers Cheslyn Daniels and Ashwin Jansen are facing off against each other in Cape Town’s working-class suburb of Kensington. The brother-vs-brother fight is symbolic of the bigger fight between bitter rivals: the established DA and the populist PA, which is itching to displace the blue machine in the Mother City.

Deep south resident Gabrielle Maritz is one of 142 072 candidates contesting the 4 November local government elections.

A total of 75 contractors have now been blocked from working with the state over the past two years, Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson says.