2026 Local Government Elections

Know the truth before you vote.

Each promise a party made is read against what a municipality can do. Promises we could not assess are marked.

Preview of analysis: 10 parties, as at 3 October 2026.

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Parties contesting
547 of 732 registered parties
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Reported Manifesto launches
16 of 547 parties contesting
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Accessible Manifestos
10 of 16 reported launches
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Manifestos analysed by Ukweli to date
10 of 10 accessible manifestos

Manifesto counts last checked 4 October 2026. Parties contesting is the IEC’s figure of 2 September 2026.

Reported launches not analysed here: ACT, Al Jama-ah, BOSA, GOOD, Minority Front, PAC, Patriotic Alliance. Ukweli does not yet hold a readable manifesto document for these parties.

Manifestos analysed by Ukweli to date

Each party’s promises, word for word, with Ukweli’s finding on every one. Parties are in alphabetical order.

ACDP132 promisesACDP logoRead the assessment →ActionSA356 promisesActionSA logoRead the assessment →AMM453 promisesAMM logoRead the assessment →ANC323 promisesANC logoRead the assessment →DA244 promisesDA logoRead the assessment →EFF287 promisesEFF logoRead the assessment →FF Plus120 promisesFF Plus logoRead the assessment →IFP68 promisesIFP logoRead the assessment →SACP19 promisesSACP logoRead the assessment →UDM150 promisesUDM logoRead the assessment →

Party logos belong to the parties and are shown for identification only. Ukweli is not affiliated with any party.

Compare the parties side by sideWhat each party is promising, theme by theme, and how much of it a council can deliver. Choose up to four parties.Open the comparison →

What Ukweli does. It checks every promise against the powers the Constitution gives a council, so you can see which promises a council can deliver, which depend on other spheres of government, and which no council can deliver.

What it does not do. It does not score, rank or endorse any party, and it does not say whether a promise will be kept.

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