Coalitions will be the name of the game in the coming days due to smaller, often local, parties chipping away at support for both the DA and the ANC in areas outside the metro.
The DA’s Geordin Hill-Lewis can now officially be referred to as the City’s mayor-elect, after emerging as the winner in the race for the mayorship of the City of Cape Town.
According to the civil rights organisation AfriForum’s Centre for Local Government Affairs municipalities in the Western Cape exceled in many aspects, but not all performed well. This is the conclusion made in an audit of the province’s municipalities that follows the organisation’s previous audits of North West, Gauteng and Mpumalanga. This was announced today during the launch of the organisation’s municipal audit report for the Western Cape. According to Dr Eugene Brink, Manager of the Centre for Local Government at AfriForum, the municipalities in the Western Cape can overall boast with their condition. “Especially in comparison with the rest of the country’s municipalities, their drinking water is cleaner and more households have tap water in their houses. High percentages of households live in formal housing, has weekly refuse removal and use electricity for lighting.