For the first time in democratic SA, one of the country’s eight metros, the capital city of Tshwane, has been placed under administration and will now go to fresh elections about a year before the next local poll.

This decision was taken by the ANC-led Gauteng government in the wake of a political impasse, which has threatened service delivery in the metro, which accounts for about 9% of SA’s GDP...

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