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            <title>GOOD, RISE Mzansi carve up Gauteng, W Cape to fight fragmentation</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In a major strategic alignment ahead of the November 4 local government elections, GOOD party secretary-general and City of Cape Town mayoral candidate Brett Herron has announced his party’s consolidation with RISE Mzansi as an “incremental step” toward fully merging the two political parties for the 2029 national elections. Herron detailed how the alliance will operate on the ground, its strict rules for coalition governance, and a restructured municipal model aimed at dismantling systemic poverty. According to Herron, GOOD and RISE Mzansi have fully integrated their candidates and campaign structures to prevent split caucuses within key metropolitan councils, highlighting that in Cape Town, the joint campaign runs entirely under the GOOD party banner.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[As South Africa prepares for the November Local Government Elections, Polity is engaging with political parties contesting the elections in a series of interviews to examine their manifestos, policy priorities and plans for local government. As political parties make their final pledges for change ahead of next week’s local government election, RISE Mzansi is campaigning on the need for systemic change to solve South Africa’s most pressing issues. Speaking exclusively with Polity, RISE Mzansi leader Songezo Zibi highlighted the importance of spatial justice, accessible public transport and ensuring that people live as close as possible to their places of work. “All of these things are interlinked. You can't just solve one. What defines both the legacy of the ANC and the DA is that they tend to speak about these things as totally disconnected things. And that's a conversation we've been having with South Africans for the last few months,” he said.]]></description>
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            <title>BOSA envisions merit-based governance, professionalism to rescue collapsing metros</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Build One South Africa leader Mmusi Maimane has laid out a stringent, merit-based vision for municipal governance, asserting that the country's collapsing municipalities can only be rescued by technical competence and strict accountability. Speaking with Polity about the party’s 2026 local election manifesto, Maimane argued that deep financial literacy and structural reform were the primary requirements for fixing local government. Drawing from his current role in chairing the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Appropriations, Maimane emphasised that understanding public finance was crucial to driving programmatic change. He criticised the track record of politicians currently managing local councils, stating that while they claimed to have experience, it was ultimately an “experience in failing citizens”.]]></description>
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            <title>‘Better to under-promise, over-deliver’ – ActionSA shifts strategy for local elections</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ActionSA will contest only 78 municipalities nationwide in the upcoming local government elections, marking a deliberate pivot toward tactical consolidation. Speaking exclusively with Polity, ActionSA national spokesperson Lerato Ngobeni stated that the party's new approach is driven by lessons learned from the 2024 national elections, where stretching resources across the entire country proved unsustainable. “We saw that in 2024 we really over-stretched ourselves,” Ngobeni said. “It's better to under-promise and over-deliver. That is the party's strategy.” The restricted focus was decided during a recent strategic session with provincial chairpersons. The party mapped out areas with solid local structures, active "boots on the ground", and enough capacity to deploy critical party agents to monitor voting and counting processes.]]></description>
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            <title>Cope leader Mosiuoa Lekota unpacks the party's 2024 election manifesto </title>
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            <title>Independent Candidate Zackie Achmat discusses his policies ahead of the 2024 elections</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Independent Candidate Zackie Achmat discusses his policies ahead of the 2024 elections. Click here to read his 2024 election manifesto.]]></description>
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