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?
BOSA 2026 Local Government Election Manifesto.
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This analysis covers the BOSA 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.
The BOSA manifesto file Ukweli analysed was created on 5 September 2026. Ukweli has not established whether it is the edition BOSA launched.
Ukweli read BOSA’s 2026 local government manifesto and identified 133 separate promises. 95 have been assessed against the Constitution. Ukweli could not assess the other 38; the reasons are set out below.
Of the 95 assessed promises:
12 are about services a municipality is responsible for delivering.
44 are about how the council runs itself: its money, staff, decisions and how it answers to residents.
0 are shared with other spheres of government.
14 are led by another sphere of government, with a defined role for the council.
12 are outside municipal powers. These are not a council's own responsibility; delivery rests with another sphere of government. See these promises ↓
13 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
95assessed
Promises - Running of The Council44
Promises - Within Municipal Powers12
Promises - Led By Another Sphere, Council Has a Role14
Promises - Outside Municipal Powers12
Promises - Party Conduct13
0 of 133 promises assessed0%
0
Promises - Council Can Act On
Promises - Within Municipal Powers12
Promises - Running of The Council44
Promises - Shared With Other Spheres of Government0
0
Promises - Led By Another Sphere
0
Promises - Outside Municipal Powers
0
Promises - Party Conduct
Why only 95 of 133 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 38 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.
