Media24 Ballot Box

Ballot Box

South Africans will head to the polls on 1 November to elect new mayors and local councillors.
In this podcast, News24 politics editor Qaanitah Hunter helps you separate the wheat from the chaff in the municipal elections.
Occasionally English South Africa Politics · News
4 Episodes

PODCAST | Ballot Box: Why is local government so bad?

The hard reality of local government is that only 7% of the country's municipalities are classified as well functioning. In this week's episode of the Ballot Box, News24 political editor Qaanitah Hunter speaks to the newly-appointed deputy minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Thembisile Simelane-Nkadimeng, about what's at the…
10 Oct 2021 31 min