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Despite earlier threats to withhold support, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) ultimately backed the ANC in passing key budgets in the City of Johannesburg council on Friday.

EFF backs ANC in Johannesburg budget vote despite earlier threats

The red berets had previously threatened not to support any budgets tabled by the ANC after their speaker was removed in Ekurhuleni

Presenting the organisational report during the party’s 16th regional conference on Thursday, outgoing secretary Sasabone Manganye warned that the decline of the ANC in the Greater Johannesburg region was not just a temporary setback but a deep, structural, and multidimensional crisis. (Facebook)

ANC admits to feeling heat from MK, EFF, ActionSA, PA and DA

The party says its decline has been worsened by communication failures, while opponents dominate social media with sharp messaging and emotional appeal

The ANC’s top seven will handle the selection process for mayoral candidates after rules were tightened. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

ANC to announce its mayoral candidates before 2026 local government elections

The party’s top seven officials will handle the selection after the rules were tightened

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba. Photo: Action SA

Mashaba could face off against Zille for Joburg mayor

ActionSA leader ready for race if party can’t find better mayoral candidate

Suspended Patriotic Alliance deputy president Kenny Kunene. (X)

Kunene has no links to Katiso ‘TK’ Molefe, report finds

The party is expected to redeploy him in the Johannesburg council and will demand he gets back his MMC for transport position

Suspended Patriotic Alliance deputy president Kenny Kunene. (X)

Decision for PA’s Kunene to be Joburg mayoral candidate taken before his suspension – party sources

Patriotic Alliance sources say that despite investigations into the deputy president’s links to murder suspect Katiso Molefe, they have confidence in him

Shake up: EFF has threatened that it will withdraw its support for the ANC in the City of Johannesburg if its demands are not met.

EFF demands Joburg transport post as condition for continued support of ANC

The move is a strategy ahead of next year’s local government elections, as the party believes that fixing roads, traffic lights and public transport networks will prove its ability to govern

The PA is demanding that its newly appointed councillor, Liam Jacobs, take over the position of transport MMC in Johannesburg.(@LiamJacobsZA/X)

EXCLUSIVE: We’ll pull out of Joburg coalition if we don’t get transport MMC post, say EFF and PA

The EFF wants Mgcini Tshwaku — while PA want Liam Jacobs — to take over the position left vacant by Kenny Kunene’s resignation

Suspended Patriotic Alliance deputy president Kenny Kunene. (X)

Kenny Kunene ordered to say sorry for calling Julius Malema a cockroach

The suspended Patriotic Alliance deputy president had previously vowed that the EFF leader would not get a cent from him and that he would not apologise

Panyaza Lesufi, Gauteng premier and co-convenor of the ANC in the province. Photo: X

Lesufi considering alternatives to politics, rules out ANC top seven bid

The premier and provincial co-convenor said the party would resurrect itself in Gauteng because there was no better alternative

Removed: Tshwane mayor Cilliers Brink. (Deon Raath/Gallo Images)

Korner Talk | The Democratic Alliance’s brinkmanship

Unlike the ousted Tshwane mayor, the DA ditched former Joburg mayor Mpho Phalatse like Ultra Mel custard on a Skhothane teenager’s Carvela shoes

ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu-Motsiri. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

ANC: ‘We are talking to everybody’

The party’s national executive committee will decide who it will partner with – and how – on Thursday

Councillor Juwairiya Kaldine. Photo: Facebook

PA councillor accused of ‘fraudulent’ Joburg land transfer

The councillor has been accused of giving away provincial land for a taxi rank development without following legislation

Elections 2024: What the major political parties say about social grants

We sent questions to the ANC, DA, EFF, IFP, FF Plus, ActionSA, PA, MK Party and RISE Mzansi