Poll dancing: Party lists, coalitions and the Gauteng province.

National policy issues can now take centre stage, but sacrfices will have to be made in order to achieve them

Citizens of Nelson Mandela Bay, Tshwane and Johannesburg will have to wait a few more hours to see who their mayors will be.

The DA will not court trouble by entering coalitions with problematic parties merely to win control over two small municipalities in the Western Cape.

Coalition rule in Cape Town was the first major step in the DA’s move into government. But the party is treading more carefully this time around.

Indonesia’s political parties are in coalitions talks ahead of a presidential election in July.