2026 local government elections real time results and updates

[thestaggy]

IFP is pretty chill compared to MK. To be honest we still don't really know what MK is about other than getting Zuma and his cronies back into power. IFP is more just about Zulu culture having a greater priority in KZN (They are the guys who keep moving our capital to Ulundi) but they have no problems working with the DA and ANC. Actually they ran things better than the ANC ever did.

Oh yeah, I am aware that the IFP are a lot more reasonable. I was speaking more in terms of them appealing to MK voters if/when Zuma kicks the bucket and the party falls apart. Ignoring the Zulu aspect of both parties, The MK runs on a radical economic platform that may also be a factor in the MK's appeal to voters, and I am not sure if the IFP can appeal to voters in this regard. The MK also hammered the EFF, is there is some appeal beyond just Zulu nationalism.

 

[wingnut771]

FTFY

Make no mistake, the DA can be amazingly arrogant and I believe that cost them the coalition. Zille + Brink seem to be perceived as extremely arrogant by plenty people but that doesn't mean they can't get the clean governance job done. Perceptions do matter in politics

any white face will be labelled as arrogant except maybe pappas.

 

[Sideshow Bob]

Send your gogo off to the glue factory already

If she doesn't want to play with her grandchildren there can be other uses found

I know your hatred towards women. Do you at least love your mother ?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Codswallop. In 2029 you will set some new conditions to vote for them. Vote for them again. Then bitch and moan about conditional voting after the fact

Nah... not likely Shauny.... I are a man of principles, and only money would get those to be flexible, and the DA isn't in the business of buying random witou votes.

 

[ShaunSA]

I know your hatred towards women. Do you at least love your mother ?

Nonsense. Some of my best friends are women

 

[ShaunSA]

Nah... not likely Shauny.... I are a man of principles,

A principled man wouldn't have voted for the DA

 

[ToxicBunny]

A principled man wouldn't have voted for the DA

Not THAT principled... you should know this by now man.

 

[Mista_Mobsta]

any white face will be labelled as arrogant except maybe pappas.

I don't believe that - sure race is still a major issue in SA but looking at how the votes in Gauteng have swung, color is starting to matter way less than competence

 

[Hush9300]

any white face will be labelled as arrogant except maybe pappas.

This has very little to do with skin colour, arrogance or whatever. The ANC and ASA are fighting for their political futures and as such Zille cannot be seen as Gauteng's saviour. This is about competence and backbone. They would much rather the mayorship be handed to someone they can roughshod. They don't care if that person is white or arrogant.

 

[Sideshow Bob]

This has very little to do with skin colour, arrogance or whatever. The ANC and ASA are fighting for their political futures and as such Zille cannot be seen as Gauteng's saviour. This is about competence and backbone. They would much rather the mayorship be handed to someone they can roughshod. They don't care if that person is white or arrogant.

I don't believe that - sure race is still a major issue in SA but looking at how the votes in Gauteng have swung, color is starting to matter way less than competence

You guys are not helping @wingnut771's white victimhood complex.

 

[wingnut771]

I don't believe that - sure race is still a major issue in SA but looking at how the votes in Gauteng have swung, color is starting to matter way less than competence

I'm not talking about the voters, I'm talking about the other political party leaders that cant work with the arrogant DA.

 

[Supervan II]

No, I want to be dictator!

 

[wingnut771]

You guys are not helping @wingnut771's white victimhood complex.

I will bet the farm that if GHL or Pappas was leading a coalition in jhb/pta, he would also be arrogant.

 

[ShaunSA]

You appoint me Dicktator for Life and I will sort you miserable sods out chop chop

Bugger I'm getting slow in my old age. Missed a golden chance to say Dicktaker

@Mike Hoxbig

 

[Mike7]

1980 - 1994 (14 years): R0 80 to R3.40. 4.25x
1994 - 2026 (32 years): R3.40 to R16.50. 4.85x

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More than twice the amount of time, not much worse. ANC fcked up but let's not pretend it's anywhere near as bad as the schitstorm of the last decade and a half of apartheid.

Easy to look back now and say wow only R3.40, which was 32 years ago. Imagine how they felt back then looking back only a decade and thinking about the rand that lost over 4x it's value...

I had a look and interest rates was over 20% in the 1990 with inflation at 15%.

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

I had a look and interest rates was over 20% in the 1990 with inflation at 15%.

It's apparently the sanctions fault. Not the people responsible for getting us sanctioned...

 

[Baise]

I had a look and interest rates was over 20% in the 1990 with inflation at 15%.

You need to look at that in Context - there was a Global recession in 1990

 

[wingnut771]

 

[Sideshow Bob]

It's apparently the sanctions fault. Not the people responsible for getting us sanctioned...

No people responsible ? You must be kidding.

If Mandela and his people had just accepted government that time, there wouldn't have been any sanctions.

 

[Mike7]

You need to look at that in Context - there was a Global recession in 1990

I don't know. I'm just googling and it's saying prime was 25% in 1984. We had the financial crisis in 2008 and Covid and interest rates today is not close to what it was back then.