Some in ANC resigned to opposition role as coalition talks race into final straight
ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba formally rejects EFF plan to make him mayor
14 November 2021 - 23:01
Some in the ANC’s senior ranks have resigned themselves to a possible future on the opposition benches ahead of this week’s down-to-the-wire talks to form coalition governments in dozens of municipal councils.
Coalition talks have kicked into high gear in about 70 so-called hung municipalities, in which no party emerged with an outright majority. This follows local government elections earlier in November that marked the ANC’s worst electoral showing since 1994...
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