Failed quorums, ousted speakers, fake acting speakers, bribery to betray coalition partners — SA’s metros have become sites of intrigue and high drama. 

Coalitions at the scale we have now are relatively new to SA — in 2016, the country went from one coalition-run metro to three. In 2021, the game changed again — now only three of the country’s eight metros are not run by a coalition government. ..

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