GroundUp is covering the run-up to the municipal elections in 2016. We'll keep links to articles relevant to the elections here, including a series of ward profiles.
Most unregistered voters are under 30
Success of weekend registration drive depends on youth turnout
Brief | 4 March 2016
Ward 69: Fragmented by apartheid era planning
This area will be closely contested in the Municipal elections
Feature | 1 February 2016
No agreement on who will clean Barcelona’s toilets
The informal settlement's toilets are overflowing and unusable.
News | 15 January 2016
Philippi ward beset by internal politics
There is a political battle underway in Philippi's Ward 33. The fight is not between opposing political parties, however, but within the ANC itself, with former ward councillor Monwabisi Mbaliswano in one corner and the present incumbent, Nico Mzalisi, in the other.
Feature | 14 January 2016
Bellville South is bursting at the seams
Mercia Kleinsmith has been the councillor of Ward 9, or Bellville South, since 2009. She won a by-election following the death of her husband Glen, the day after the DA won the province in April that year. Glen had been hailed in the press as the city’s “leading drugbuster”.
Steve Kretzmann
Feature | 9 December 2015
Can Dunoon overcome its housing problems?
In a dimly-lit room, about 50 people wait to have proof-of-residence documents authorised by Dunoon ward councillor Lubabalo Makeleni.
Steve Kretzmann
Feature | 27 November 2015