A National Alliance faction aligned with Gary van Niekerk and Stag Mitchell has approached the Gqeberha high court to try to interdict the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) from removing them or replacing them as councillors.
Somewhere between collapsing late-night talks and the absence of a DA councillor, amid the daunting prospects of a hung council, the ANC managed to scrape together a majority coalition for Nelson Mandela Bay, with the party’s Eugené Johnson becoming mayor of the metro. Somewhere between coll.
The Makana Citizens Front, a civil organisation formed by fed-up residents of Makhanda three months ago to contest the local elections to end the rot at the ANC-controlled Makana Municipality, has lost in all 14 wards in the municipality.
It's all systems go at the Eastern Cape results centre in East London where voting results from voting stations across the province are expected to be announced. While the media are setting up in preparation for the results as they slowly trickle in, the IEC staff at the centre, based at the International Conventions Centre (ICC) are all hands on deck working on resolving “exceptional” cases from the voting and counting stations.