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ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA DA takes VD from ANC in Govan Mbeki By-Election The DA in Mpumalanga continues to increase its support in ANC strongholds . Yesterday’s by-election in Govan Mbeki saw the party grow from 10% in 2024 to 26%, surging past the EFF and MK to take the party’s first VD in this ward. This goes to show that the DA is making inroads in our townships and rural areas. Our commitment to service delivery and residents of this ward remains unchanged. The outcome of this by-election is an indication that a substantial number of residents in this ward are rallying behind the DA for change.  This growth comes at a critical time as we gear up for the 2026 Local Government Elections . The DA remains the only party capable of turning around this Govan Mbeki Local Municipality . Residents of Govan Mbeki deserve a government that prioritises their needs.  The DA will continue expanding its footprint throughout the province from rural and urban areas. Notably, ou...

ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA  508 POLITICAL PARTIES TO CONTEST 2026 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS  Voter Registration The Electoral Commission is encouraged by the number of South Africans who have acted on the call to register and update their details through various convenient platforms ahead of the upcoming local government general elections in 2026/27 . From January to September 2025, over 305 206 new voters registered, while 60 752 voters updated their registration details. The highest number of new registrations occurred in September with 71 324, followed by August, 51 714, and February, 39 967. Period /New Registration /Re-Registrations January 2025 -17 138 -4 476 February 2025 -39 967 -7 631 March 2025 -33 583 -4 836 April 2025 -17 828 -9 191 May 2025 -28 943 -6 334 June 2025 -21 022 -5 022 July 2025 -23 687 -7 911 August 2025 -51 714 -6 732 September 2025 -71 324 -8 619 Total: -305 206 -60 752   Of this total of r...

ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA  RISING BODY COUNT UNDERSCORES CAPE TOWN POLICING CRISIS Unite for Change Leadership Council Member and GOOD Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament 1. HIGHEST CRIME AREAS HAVE FEW POLICE 2. BILLIONS SPENT ON CITY ‘KITSKOPS’ BEAR NO FRUIT 3. WESTERN CAPE HAS MOST VACANT DETECTIVE POSTS IN THE COUNTRY The number of people killed in shooting incidents in Cape Town has spiralled since the launch of the Safer Festive Season operations last month, with 40 deaths, mostly gang-related, reported over the past two weekends. The Safer Festive Season programme, a collaborative effort involving national police, provincial, and City resources, is intended to make communities safer during the tourist season. The principle cannot be faulted. But extra bobbies on the beat in the Waterfront and roadblocks in the Winelands won’t stop the plague of shootings because the violence is happening on the Cape Flats . A large part of the problem is the politicisa...

ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA  ANC WESTERN CAPE LEADERS JOINS DA Senior ANC Western Cape officials and Councillors, have walked over from the ANC to the DA today, starting a process that will gather momentum in the months ahead. Members leaving the ANC include their elected Western Cape Provincial Secretary and two sitting Ward Councillors, from Swellendam and Cederberg . The group includes elected members of the ANC Western Cape Provincial Executive and Regional Committees, who are leaving the ANC to join the DA. This is a milestone moment, and it mirrors the swing in support by South African voters who continue to abandon the ANC to support the DA. This is an example of the realignment of politics in South Africa. ANC support is in decline across South Africa, and in the Western Cape it is in terminal decline. In contrast, DA support continues to grow and momentum is building behind the DA’s offer to reform South Africa’s economy , grow jobs for all and replace BEE . The me...

ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA  HAWKS ARREST ANOTHER SAFA SUSPECT GAUTENG -A 64-year-old suspect is expected to appear before the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crimes Court today, 05 November 2025. He was arrested this morning by the Johannesburg based Hawks’ Serious Commercial Crime Investigation team after handing himself over  During September 2018, the suspect was appointed as the Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of South African Football Association (SAFA). It is alleged that the suspect conspire to backdate the contract of Grit Communications at SAFA. It is further alleged that Grit Communications provided services to SAFA President without SAFA’s knowledge and authorisation. It is reported that the service level agreement that was entered into between SAFA and Grit Communications on 01 October 2017 expired on 30 September 2018, therefore there was no new service level agreement that was entered into between SAFA and Grit Communications during the period of O...

ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA Police Minister Cachalia’s Testimony provides more Questions than Answers Cachalia has no clear plan or timeline to restore accountability and public trust in SAPS . He is reluctant to audit past appointments, avoiding accountability for previous failures. The DA calls for urgent reforms, including independent audits and reinstated disciplinary units. Acting Minister of Police, Professor Firoz Cachalia 's testimony before Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee on Police today raised more uncertainty than clarity about the direction of South Africa’s troubled police service. Although he has already spent several months in office, Minister Cachalia was unable to outline a concrete plan or timeline to restore accountability, discipline, or public trust in the South African Police Service . Instead, he leaned heavily on talk of “consultation” and “future collaboration,” leaving pressing questions unresolved. When asked how he intends to rebuild credibility with...

ONLINE EDITOR @KASIBC_AFRICA SAPS 2024/25 ANNUAL REPORT  The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) notes, with outrage, the revelations contained in the recently tabled 2024/25 Annual Report of the South African Police Service (SAPS), which lays bare a police institution that has completely collapsed under the weight of corruption, incompetence and deliberate deception.  The report confirms beyond doubt that the ANC government has turned the police service into a lawless and dysfunctional bureaucracy. The Auditor-General ’s findings expose a pattern of systematic dishonesty. SAPS leadership has resorted to manipulating and inflating performance data to create the false appearance of progress while communities are being terrorised by criminals every day.  The report shows that in some cases, the police invented success rates that do not exist. For example, in one investigative programme, SAPS claimed that it had solved more than half of crimes at construction sites, when th...