JOHANNESBURG, April 30 (Reuters) – South Africa's next municipal elections will be held on Nov. 4, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a post on Twitter.
Municipal elections are held in the country approximately every five years, and South Africans were waiting to know the date of the next local government vote.
The largest political party, Ramaphosa's African National Congress (ANC), has performed worse in municipal elections than in national elections, as voters express frustration over the poor state of public infrastructure such as roads and water pipes.
In the 2021 municipal elections, the ANC won less than half the votes for the first time since the end of white minority rule in 1994.
The result served as a precursor to the 2024 national election, when the ANC lost its parliamentary majority, after which it formed a broad coalition government, with Ramaphosa remaining head of state.
(Reporting by Safundo Parakozov, Nilutpal Timsina and Anathi Madubela; Editing by Alexander Vining)