On 15 October 2026, the Constitutional Court ordered the Electoral Commission (IEC) to place 181 ANC candidates on the ballot for the 4 November 2026 local government elections. The candidates had been excluded for one reason: the party uploaded their details and paid their deposits, but never clicked "submit as final" on the IEC's online nomination system. The Court has not yet given its reasons. The order alone, however, raises a question that reaches well beyond electoral

Three weeks before the municipal elections: who actually runs the North Coast, and the water decision the next council cannot dodge. Ashley Gittins · Gittins Attorneys Inc. · Johannesburg · Ballito · www.gittins.co.za On Wednesday 4 November 2026 South Africa elects its municipal councils. On the North Coast, an awkward truth sits under that date: most of what works in your day is run by people you never voted for. The gate that lifts when you get home. The verges and

In June 2017, a Walter Sisulu University student was due to receive her monthly NSFAS food allowance of R1 400. Instead, more than R14 million appeared in her student account. Over the weeks that followed, she spent about R818 000 of it. In 2022 the East London Regional Court convicted her of theft. On appeal, the Eastern Cape High Court confirmed that conviction, although it replaced her prison term with a wholly suspended sentence. Most of us will never wake up to R14 milli