HeyJaredJoseph Sekhampu
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JOSEPH SEKHAMPU | Why the EFF will struggle to turn its ideas into votes (opens the original)
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The EFF’s manifesto for the local government elections in November asks municipalities to do considerably more than collect refuse, maintain roads and keep water flowing. It imagines them as instruments of economic transformation, using municipal land, public services, procurement, and local economic policy to alter the material circumstances of poor communities. In one sense, this is simply the EFF taking its national politics to local government. In another, it exposes one of the most interest
JOSEPH SEKHAMPU | Why electoral decline has not broken ANC apart (opens the original)
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For much of South Africa’s democratic era, the ANC’s large electoral majorities made it easy to overlook the extent of its internal divisions. Arguments about power, policy and the direction of the country were a constant feature of its internal politics, but repeated victories at the polls allowed a divided organisation to present itself as a coherent political force. The struggle against apartheid gave the ANC a common purpose capable of containing disagreements over ideology, strategy and amb
JOSEPH SEKHAMPU | ANC’s proposed municipal reform could disrupt its local power networks (opens the original)
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Some of the most politically consequential promises in the ANC’s 2026 local government election manifesto are written in the language of administration. The party wants municipalities to rebuild in-house capacity, reduce dependence on consultants and insource functions where this improves accountability and value for money. It also promises stronger procurement controls, action against corrupt contractors and professional municipal appointments. These commitments reach directly into systems thro
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