Guest: Roland Harris , (former) MMC in the City of Joburg ]  

Guest: Athol Trollip, Chairperson of ActionSA in EC & former mayor of Nelson Mandela Metro]  

South Africa’s municipal government elections in 2021 produced a number of local government coalitions. There’s now a strong possibility that the next government that’s formed at national 

level may be a coalition too. This would be the first since the dawn of democracy in 1994.

Elections due in 2024 will test the extent of the declining dominance of the ANC, with some polls suggesting that the party could fail to secure the 50% of the vote required to form a government.  

With the chaos seen in local coalitions, can South Africans expect a national coalition to be 

stable? The turbulence in coalitions seen in 2021-2023 led to the disintegration and 

reconstitution of municipal coalitions. Political parties accused each other of all sorts of things, 

and the result is a lack of attention to actually governing cities, and providing municipal services.

Guest: Roland Harris , (former) MMC in the City of Joburg ]  
Guest: Athol Trollip, Chairperson of ActionSA in EC &amp; former mayor of Nelson Mandela Metro]  
South Africa’s municipal government elections in 2021 produced a number of local government coalitions. There’s now a strong possibility that the next government that’s formed at national 
level may be a coalition too. This would be the first since the dawn of democracy in 1994.
Elections due in 2024 will test the extent of the declining dominance of the ANC, with some polls suggesting that the party could fail to secure the 50% of the vote required to form a government.  
With the chaos seen in local coalitions, can South Africans expect a national coalition to be 
stable? The turbulence in coalitions seen in 2021-2023 led to the disintegration and 
reconstitution of municipal coalitions. Political parties accused each other of all sorts of things, 
and the result is a lack of attention to actually governing cities, and providing municipal services.

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