The ANC in Mpumalanga has dismissed six councillors who are accused of handing the reins of the Mkhondo Local Municipality in Piet Retief to independents and opposition parties.
Leaders of the three biggest SA political parties, the DA, ANC and EFF, are on the campaign trail. We look at where they have been campaigning over seven days.
Oudtshoorn
In 2016, the DA won an outright majority in the town, taking 14 of the 25 seats on the council. It was not beholden to small parties. However, the relationship between the party and its number-one citizen in Oudtshoorn, Mayor Colan Sylvester, soured, with Sylvester eventually resigning. Chris Mcpherson was elected as his replacement. Three ward councillors who were aligned to the former mayor quit the DA. This meant the party lost its outright majority, while those vacancies remained unfilled. Mcpherson and the DA crafted a coalition with a regional party, the Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa (ICOSA), and a local party, the South African Religious Civic Organisation (SARCO).