RC 261105SAfmBridget Masinga
Thursday, 5 November 2026
Results-day coverage centred on predicted ANC losses in the metros, a likely surge in hung councils, and Mistra's analysis of why coalitions are hard to keep together.
- 13:03
The CSIR predicts a drop of at least 20% in ANC support in the Buffalo City metro, from 60% in the 2021 local elections.
- 14:05
ActionSA's national chairperson says the party has taken 35 wards from the ANC across the three Gauteng metros, including every Tembisa ward.
- 14:47
Hung councils are set to rise sharply from the roughly 80 after 2021, with counting in many councils already pointing to a large number.
- 13:25
Mistra's Coalitions Barometer found a third of coalitions formed after 2021 kept the same configuration four and a half years later, contradicting assumptions of constant collapse.
- 13:37
Mistra says donut-shaped coalitions, where parties with opposing views unite only against a common enemy, tend not to last very long.