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This analysis covers the SACP launch-statement extract and manifesto poster 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 did not obtain the SACP’s full manifesto document. The promises on this page come from two parts of its newsletter Umsebenzi Online (August 2026, No 11): the extract of the SACP’s statement at the launch of its manifesto (pages 7 to 11), and a one-page summary of the manifesto printed as a poster (page 6). The poster is a picture with no text, so Ukweli read its words from the image and checked the reading a second way; those promises are marked as read from an image. The poster’s other items are headings or short phrases, such as “Ward-by-ward audits of water & sanitation”, which Ukweli does not count as promises, on the same terms it applies to every party.
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Summary of findings
Ukweli read the SACP’s published extract of its manifesto-launch statement and its one-page manifesto poster and identified 32 separate promises. 24 have been assessed against the Constitution. Ukweli could not assess the other 8; the reasons are set out below.
Of the 24 assessed promises:
- 3 are about services a municipality is responsible for delivering.
- 5 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.
- 1 is led by another sphere of government, with a defined role for the council.
- 8 are outside municipal powers. These are not a council's own responsibility; delivery rests with another sphere of government. See these promises ↓
- 7 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
Why only 24 of 32 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 8 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.