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        <description><![CDATA[Polity.org.za offers a unique take on news, with a focus on political, legal, economic and social issues in South Africa and Africa, as well as international affairs. Polity strives to provide our readers reliable and objective reporting on important issues that drive our society.]]></description>
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            <title>UDM 2026 Local Government Elections Manifesto </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Local government is the sphere of government closest to the people. When a municipality fails, residents feel it immediately. They feel it through dry taps, sewage spills, broken roads, unreliable refuse removal, unsafe streets, collapsing infrastructure, poor billing systems, and councillors who are absent when communities need them most. The United Democratic Movement (UDM) believes that local government must return to its core purpose. Municipalities must deliver basic services, manage ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thirty two years have passed since the dawn of South Africa’s democratic dispensation with its promise of a free and brighter future for us all. Our Constitution states, among other things, that the objects of local government are to ensure the provision of services to communities in a sustainable manner, to promote social and economic development, and to promote a safe and healthy environment. Also, a municipality must structure and manage its administration, budgeting and planning processes to give priority to the basic needs of the community. In breach of this constitutional duty, however, we see high levels of corruption and mismanagement resulting in poor, inefficient service delivery to communities.]]></description>
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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>South Africans Deserve Better: The RISE Mzansi Municipal Plan</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After years of careful mismanagement and methodically executed corruption, most municipalities have fallen into different levels of dysfunction, including metros where tens of millions of South Africans live. Municipalities directly affect the lives of all South Africans and their collective failure to deliver even basic services now amounts to an assault on the dignity of South Africans. This crisis is man made, and this election provides an opportunity to put an end to the growing sense of despair experienced by millions of families unable to cushion themselves from municipal failure and a nationally high cost of living. Change will begin by electing the right people to Council.]]></description>
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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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            <description><![CDATA[The 2026 Local Government Elections give our people an opportunity to restore dignity by restoring our municipalities and rural communities. For too long, municipalities have reproduced the apartheid legacy. Our people remain far from jobs and opportunity. Townships and rural areas remain underserviced and underdeveloped. Informal settlements lack secure housing and reliable services.]]></description>
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