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Saturday, 7 November 2026
Local government election counting nears completion, with hung councils spreading across the Free State and Nelson Mandela Bay as the DA, ANC and smaller parties jockey for coalition control.
- 06:04
Free State: 14 of the province's 19 municipal councils are now hung after no party won an outright majority, a jump from four hung councils in the 2021 local elections.
- 06:03
Nelson Mandela Bay is headed for a hung council: the DA won 53 of 120 seats provisionally, the ANC 32, and the EFF 7, with no party holding an outright majority.
- 06:21
The IEC says it has completed 91% of results for the 2026 local government elections, with the metros the slowest because of high voter density and contested ballots.
- 06:24
Action SA says it has taken 35 wards from the ANC across three Gauteng metros, including every ward in Tembisa and every ward in Atteridgeville barring one.
- 06:45
Democrats have secured control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives in a sweeping US midterm victory, setting up a difficult final two years for Donald Trump.