No political party will win an outright majority in any of South Africa’s eight major metropolitan municipalities in the 2026 local government elections, resulting in coalition governments.
[Politics]Check by 04 Nov 2026 (est.)
No political party will win an outright majority in any of South Africa’s eight major metropolitan municipalities in the 2026 local government elections, resulting in coalition governments.
“I believe strongly that we're not even going to get outright winner or majority winner of all these eight major. I don't think that there will be any outright majority. We are still going to have coalition government.”
Godfrey Labalo · Power FM · POWER Zone · 31 Aug 2026
A falsifiable call made on live South African radio, extracted from the broadcast transcript and tracked to its outcome against public sources — with its audio receipt. The reader poll is audience sentiment, not odds; there is nothing to wager on. How the prediction desk works
