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This analysis covers the EFF 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 the EFF’s 2026 local government manifesto and identified 287 separate promises. 213 have been assessed against the Constitution. Ukweli could not assess the other 74; the reasons are set out below.
Of the 213 assessed promises:
70 are about services a municipality is responsible for delivering.
53 are about how the council runs itself: its money, staff, decisions and how it answers to residents.
8 are shared with other spheres of government.
66 are outside municipal powers. No council can deliver them, whoever wins.
16 are commitments about the party's own conduct, not the council's.
Ukweli also compared the 131 promises a council can act on with the EFF’s 2021 local government manifesto. For 19 of them it found a matching 2021 passage, shown on the promise’s card. For the rest it found none; that does not prove nothing was said.
For 6 of these promises, the EFF’s own account of its record, in its 2026 manifesto, has words on the same subject, shown on the promise’s card.
Ukweli gives no overall score or grade to a manifesto. Each promise is assessed on its own, and the detail follows below.
The detail
Promises - Running of The Council53
Promises - Within Municipal Powers70
Promises - Outside Municipal Powers66
Promises - Party Conduct16
Promises - Shared With Other Spheres of Government8
0 of 287 promises assessed0%
0
Promises - Council Can Act On
Promises - Within Municipal Powers70
Promises - Running of The Council53
Promises - Shared With Other Spheres of Government8
0
Promises - Outside Municipal Powers
0
Promises - Party Conduct
Why only 213 of 287 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 only when all three readings agree and every check passes. Where that did not happen, Ukweli publishes no verdict rather than a wrong one. These are the reasons the other 74 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.
