2021 STATE OF OUR CITIES Broken Joburg’s voters get ready to hang the council 11 min 23 By Ferial Haffajee
2021 STATE OF OUR CITIES The (Un)Fair Cape: There’s a way to go before the poor see some of Cape Town’s sparkle 7 min 14 By Rebecca Davis
2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS: GROUND LEVEL REPORT ANC and IFP mudslinging keeps waterless Jozini residents parched in run-up to polling day 7 min 1 By Chris Makhaye and Nce Mkhize
2021 STATE OF OUR CITIES eThekwini metro (Part Three): In Durban, ‘People are being killed like flies... and it is the same crew doing the killings’ 11 min 5 By Des Erasmus
2021 GROUND LEVEL REPORT Lost City, Mitchells Plain: Where children collect scrap to buy food and gangsters run rampant 5 min 1 By Vincent Cruywagen and Karabo Mafolo
AGE OF THE ASSASSIN OP-ED Targeting of three women for assassination shows how violence is shaping electoral politics 6 min 5 By Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
2021 GROUND LEVEL REPORT No water, power, sanitation: Local councils in remote KZN areas might pay at the polls 7 min 0 By Chris Makhaye and Nce Mkhize
GroundUp: 2021 Local Government Elections Cofimvaba residents protest poor service delivery and property destruction by Intsika Yethu Municipality 4 min 0 By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik for GroundUp
2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS Poll countdown: Surge in number of independent candidates — results out by 4 November 3 min 0 By Suné Payne
2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS: LEGISLATION TWEAKS Municipal Structures Amendment Act reform touted as ‘gamechanger’ for accountability of public officials 2 min 0 By Sandisiwe Shoba
Tuesday Editorial: Local Elections 2021 Power taking precedence: communities need recognition and devoted service, not rhetoric and broken promises 3 min 2 By Estelle Ellis
LOCAL ELECTIONS 2021: GROUND LEVEL REPORT Rocklands: The birthplace of the UDF holds the key to Mitchells Plain 5 min 0 By Vincent Cruywagen
2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS: BEYOND THE BALLOT Prospects of legal challenges to the polls: Insights from the Constitutional Court’s recent judgment 4 min 0 By Catherine Kruyer
ISS TODAY: ANALYSIS — 2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS South Africa’s construction mafia sets its sights on local government extortion 4 min 7 By Godfrey Mulaudzi and Lizette Lancaster for ISS Today
2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS NEWSFLASH Four provinces categorised as high risk ahead of 1 November polls, says Bheki Cele 2 min 4 By Karabo Mafolo
2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS DA leader John Steenhuisen points out ‘dysfunctional ANC municipalities’ while making his final pitch 4 min 19 By Carien du Plessis
ANALYSIS Anti-vaxxing politics — an ideal wedge issue for the desperate and low 5 min 0 By Stephen Grootes
2021 LOCAL ELECTIONS: STATE OF OUR CITIES Strides made to rescue rundown Pietermaritzburg, says mayor – financial viability still a monumental challenge 6 min 1 By Sandisiwe Shoba
ANALYSIS Two-horse races: These are battlegrounds where ANC and DA could expect further damage 6 min 0 By Wayne Sussman
