Coalition in peril if ANC fails to deliver on Matatiele demarcation
AIC partner wants demarcation to go before Parliament by November
Time is running out for the ANC as it struggles to implement promises it made to the African Independent Congress (AIC), which helped it to retain power in Ekurhuleni. In the 2016 local government elections, the ANC received just under 50% of the vote. It won 109 seats in the metro and needed 112 to obtain a majority in the council to ward off a coalition with opposition parties such as the DA and the EFF. The AIC managed to win four seats in the poll. In return for keeping it in power in the East Rand metro, the ANC agreed in a memorandum of understanding to move Matatiele in the Eastern Cape back to KwaZulu-Natal. Such a decision will have to go through Parliament and could trigger similar calls by other regions with border disputes.
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