Deep dive into the 436 of 1,378 analysed promises from ten LGE 2026 manifestos of contesting parties that are outside a council’s listed functions or led by another sphere: what they are about, and who holds the power instead. Whose power is it?Deep dive into the 436 of 1,378 analysed promises from ten LGE 2026 manifestos of contesting parties that are outside a council’s listed functions or led by another sphere: what they are about, and who holds the power instead. Whose power is it?
ActionSA 2026 Local Government Election Manifesto.
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Party logos belong to the parties and are shown for identification only. Ukweli is not affiliated with any party.
This analysis covers the ActionSA manifesto only. Ukweli assesses every party’s manifesto on the same terms. Other parties’ manifestos will be added as they are obtained.
Manifesto documents are sourced directly from party publications; Ukweli does not editorially select which parties to include or exclude.
Ukweli read ActionSA’s 2026 local government manifesto and identified 356 separate promises. 283 have been assessed against the Constitution. Ukweli could not assess the other 73; the reasons are set out below.
Of the 283 assessed promises:
61 are about services a municipality is responsible for delivering.
131 are about how the council runs itself: its money, staff, decisions and how it answers to residents.
1 is shared with other spheres of government.
21 are led by another sphere of government, with a defined role for the council.
15 are outside municipal powers. These are not a council's own responsibility; delivery rests with another sphere of government. See these promises ↓
54 are commitments about the party's own conduct, not the council's.
Ukweli gives no overall score or grade to a manifesto. Each promise is assessed on its own, and the detail follows below.
The detail
283assessed
Promises - Running of The Council131
Promises - Within Municipal Powers61
Promises - Led By Another Sphere, Council Has a Role21
Promises - Outside Municipal Powers15
Promises - Party Conduct54
Promises - Shared With Other Spheres of Government1
0 of 356 promises assessed0%
0
Promises - Council Can Act On
Promises - Within Municipal Powers61
Promises - Running of The Council131
Promises - Shared With Other Spheres of Government1
0
Promises - Led By Another Sphere
0
Promises - Outside Municipal Powers
0
Promises - Party Conduct
Why only 283 of 356 promises are assessed
Ukweli reads every promise three separate times using an AI model, and checks each answer against the text of the Constitution. A verdict is published when all three readings agree and every check passes (a few are marked “Editor’s ruling”: there the editor decided after checking the Schedules). Where that did not happen, Ukweli publishes no verdict rather than a wrong one. These are the reasons the other 73 were not assessed. Click a reason to read more:
None of these reasons is a finding about a promise or about the party. Each describes a limit of Ukweli’s method. Ukweli may re-check these promises later.
