After the heat of the campaign trail, some cold, hard facts
0: Number of parties that have committed openly to a coalition, if necessary. Essentially, all options are on the table. Whereas the DA was willing to rule out a coalition with the EFF in 2014, for example, it has pointedly refused to do that this time round. The EFF has ruled out a coalition with the ANC but has also been vague. The ANC has said it will discuss them only after the election. For more, see: ANC, EFF and DA appear to have no coalition bottom line1: This is the first local government elections the EFF will be fighting, making it difficult to gauge its performance. It managed 6.66% in the 2014 national and provincial elections and this has generally been used as a benchmark for it.2: Types of votes you will be expected to make if you live in a metro. The first is to elect a ward councillor to the metropolitan council (the ward ballot) and the second is to elect a party to the metropolitan council (the proportional representation or PR ballot). Thus, the PR ballot is a h...
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