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Political parties have written to Electoral Commission of South Africa CEO Sy Mamabolo requesting an urgent meeting to discuss their disgruntlement with the elections timetable, which they say is “unjust”.

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba says the legacy of President Cyril Ramaphosa's time in office is one of a country run down and with rampant unemployment, crime, load-shedding and decaying infrastructure.

The political parties in the charter say they will be a caring government that puts people first and prioritises the poor. They collectively believe in an open market economy and policies that produce positive results for society. They will prioritise redress for the country's unjust past by promoting nonracialism and unity.

The Multiparty Charter has announced an economy and jobs recovery plan that it says it will use to turn things around if it wins in the upcoming elections.

ActionSA's Nasiphi Moya has been elected Tshwane's first deputy mayor.

Chaos erupted in the Tshwane council chamber on Thursday as councillors disputed the election of a deputy mayor, accusing her of breaking the law.

ActionSA's Nasiphi Moya has been elected Tshwane's first deputy mayor.

Teaching and learning are expected to resume on Monday at the Phoenix Secondary School, north of Durban, where a fire, believed to have been started by a petrol bomb, destroyed the library and the administration block.

Sparks are expected to fly at the Tshwane city council meeting on Thursday when it sits to elect an ActionSA candidate to the newly created position of deputy-mayor, with opposition parties such as the EFF and ANC saying they will oppose the move because it's unnecessary.

King Sabata Dalindyebo municipality mayor Nyaniso Nelani’s big dreams of turning his municipality into a metro in two years’ time have come crashing down.This after a proposal to incorporate another town and several municipal wards from two other local municipalities into KSD to form a category A municipality failed to convince the Municipal Demarcation Board.