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Cyril Ramaphosa, South African President with Fikile Mbalula, South African Minister of Transport in Folweni during African National Congress (ANC) election campaign on October 09, 2021 in Durban, South Africa. The campaign aimed to galvanize voters, including members and supporters, to vote for ward candidates representing the ANC and to populate the ANC 2021 LGE manifesto. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)
ANC

Local government elections: A review of the ANC, DA and EFF manifestos

As the three big parties make their last attempts to woo voters in this year’s local government elections, we look back at the promises in their manifestos

  • Lizeka Tandwa
6 min read
One expert says the outages are a wake-up call for how water is managed in the country’s economic hub. (Delwyn Verasamy)
ANC

The ANC, DA and EFF ‘oblivious’ to climate crisis — Climate Justice Charter Movement

The Climate Justice Charter Movement has critiqued the manifestos of the main parties contesting the local government elections and found them ‘shallow’

  • Sheree Bega
6 min read
All three manifestos are scant on climate change, mentioning it in passing and “not in an eloquent way”. (Paul Botes/M&G)
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Election manifestos: ‘The environment will remain a loser’ under ANC, DA, EFF

Addressing climate change is largely absent in the three major parties’ election manifestos

  • Sheree Bega
7 min read