Your municipality, your vote: Why local elections matter more than you think
Breakfast with Bongani Bingwa · 4 June 2026 · 12m
Speaker 1: Seven two The Big Interview with. Speaker 2: Potholes, broken street lights, power outages, refuge collection, crime and grime. These are the issues Speaker 2: top of mind for many of us as we head to the local government elections Speaker 2: set for the fourth of November. Now. Typically around the world people are more engaged Speaker 2: with national elections rather than local polls, but could twenty twenty six prove to be Speaker 2: an exception for South Africa more than ever as many municipalities seem to be failing. Speaker 2: It's clear we should care who runs our local government and every vote counts. I Speaker 2: mean this recent by election in m Full any where the DA won award by Speaker 2: just eight votes. Eight votes. So if you're frustrated with service delivery, failures, corruption, poor Speaker 2: governance doesn't change begin with you showing up at the ballot box. The Independent Electoral Speaker 2: Commission urging citizens or citizens to make sure they are registered and that our details Speaker 2: are correct. SI Mama Bolo is the IEC Chief Electoral Officer and joins us now Speaker 2: on the line. All is a pleasure to have you on our show. Thank you Speaker 2: for your. Speaker 1: Time, Thank you Bonman, and we extend reatings to the listeners of Talk Radio seven Speaker 1: or two. Speaker 2: I said in my introduction that typically around the world many people are more concerned, Speaker 2: perhaps with national elections than they tend to be with local ones. But as many Speaker 2: of us complain about various issues, local government elections in fact are as crucial as Speaker 2: national ones, aren't they.
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