Patriotic Alliance

• WaterKeep water money apart, pay suppliers first and run 24-hour leak teams.
• Electricity and power cutsProtect electricity money, pay Eskom first and repair substations.
• RubbishGuarantee a weekly rubbish day, publish missed collections and recycle more.
• Toilets and sewageEnd remaining bucket toilets, repair wastewater works and run 24-hour sewer teams.
• RoadsClean drains before the rainy season and track road repairs.

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• Building housesRequire affordable or social housing when good council (Council The group of elected people who make decisions for a municipality. They pass its budget and choose the mayor.) land is released.
• Informal settlementsUpgrade informal settlements.
• Title deedsTransfer council houses to qualifying long-time tenants and pay the legal costs.

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• CrimePay neighbourhood watch members a salary from the council budget.
• Metro policeNo 2026 promise found.
• Local jobsNo 2026 promise found.
• Business and growthUse by-laws on people in the country illegally who run businesses.

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• CorruptionOpen the books, check pipes, roads and staff qualifications in 100 days.
• Audit resultsNo 2026 promise found.
• Wasteful spendingCap mayors' (Mayor The leader of the municipality. Councillors choose this person, not voters. So the seats each party wins decide who can lead.) cars at R450 000 and check threats before funding bodyguards.
• CoalitionsPush for published coalition (Coalition Parties that agree to run a council together, usually because none has more than half the seats alone. Together they choose the mayor.) agreements, funded portfolios and a dispute process.
• BudgetsGive residents a three-month break from paying municipal rates.

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• In March 2025 a coalition (Coalition Parties that agree to run a council together, usually because none has more than half the seats alone. Together they choose the mayor.) of the ANC, PA and PBI led Knysna. The PA later withdrew its support. A local paper reported this exit in August 2025. The paper said this was part of a PA decision to leave all its council (Council The group of elected people who make decisions for a municipality. They pass its budget and choose the mayor.) coalitions in the Western Cape. The ANC, EFF and PBI now govern.
• In Theewaterskloof, the PA held the mayor's (Mayor The leader of the municipality. Councillors choose this person, not voters. So the seats each party wins decide who can lead.) post after 2021, in a coalition with the ANC, EFF and GOOD. The mayors were Karel Papier, then Mary Liebenberg from 2023. GroundUp reported that the council was "bankrupted within three financial years" while the ANC, PA and GOOD held the political reins. Its 2023/24 audit was qualified, which means the Auditor-General found some numbers it could not trust. Irregular spending, meaning spending that broke the rules, rose to R262 million. In November 2024 the province put the council under financial administration, which means the province steps in to fix the council's money. The DA's Lincoln de Bruyn became mayor in August 2024. He was then removed, but the Western Cape High Court put him back in November 2024. By February 2025 the PA was part of a group of the FF+, ANC, PA and EFF. This group opposed the coalition of the DA, GOOD and SRWP. In late September 2026 a motion from the ANC, PA and EFF removed De Bruyn, IOL reported. In October 2026 the DA said the council had voted to undo his removal, the Daily Voice reported. No source outside the DA confirms who is mayor now. The Auditor-General's 2024-25 report lists Theewaterskloof among councils whose audit outcome got worse over the council term. It also lists the council among three Western Cape councils with going concern uncertainty, a warning that money problems may stop it running services.
• In February 2024 a coalition of the PA, ANC and a smaller local party (Party A group of people who stand for election together, with shared plans.) ran Beaufort West. The mayor was from the PA. The DA's Gina Duimpies became mayor in September 2025.
• EWN reported in July 2025 that the PA lost the mayor's post in Laingsburg in June 2025. EWN said this happened when the ANC changed sides to back a DA mayor. We found no source on the PA's role since then.
• In Matzikama, the PA's Monica Bottom was elected mayor on 29 May 2025. She led an ANC, PA, EFF and GOOD coalition that replaced the DA and FF+. Both facts come from Daily Maverick. In August 2025 the DA won a by-election (a vote to fill one empty seat). Daily Maverick then reported that the DA now had enough votes to take back the mayor's post. We found no later source on who is mayor.
• In Prince Albert, News24 reported in April 2022 that a coalition of the KGP, ANC and PA had run the council before. It also reported that the DA then took the deputy mayor and speaker posts. The speaker is the councillor (Councillor A person elected to make decisions for a municipality, such as the budget and who the mayor is. Each one holds one seat.) who runs council meetings. We found no 2025-26 source on the PA's role.
• Gayton McKenzie was Central Karoo District mayor from April 2022 to May 2023. He governed in a coalition with the ANC and the Karoo Democratic Force. After he resigned, the ANC and PA elected the ANC's Johanna Botha as mayor again in May 2023. The district's website now lists Botha as executive mayor, but it shows no party names. We found no 2025-26 source on the PA's role.
• The 2026 Mistra Coalitions Barometer, reported by TimesLIVE, says the PA was a member of 33 governments. It says the PA held the mayor's post nine times, all in governments built around the ANC. The barometer says the PA was never the largest member.

Parties (Party A group of people who stand for election together, with shared plans.) must declare some donations. This applies when one donor gives them more than R200 000 in total in a financial year. A financial year runs from April to March. The limit used to be R100 000. The President raised it in Proclamation Notice R. 275 of 2025. This was published in the Government Gazette on 18 August 2025. So the July to September 2025 report uses R100 000 for donations before that date. A smaller donation is declared once the donor's total for the year passes the limit. The IEC says the Political Funding Act covers each registered (Registered Your name is on the voters' roll. Registration for this election closed on 7 August 2026.) party, even one with no seats (Seat A place on the council, held by one councillor. A party with more votes gets more of these places.) in Parliament (Parliament South Africa's national law-makers, in Cape Town. It has two parts, the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces.) or a provincial legislature. So the IEC's reports cover each party listed here. Smaller gifts, membership fees and public money are not in these reports. So no rows means no donor passed the limit in these reports. It does not mean the party got no money. The IEC's yearly report shows each party's total of smaller gifts, without names. These are the donations the party told the IEC about, as the IEC published them. We do not compare parties. Checked 20 October 2026.

• “The Patriotic Alliance stands with the United States and with Israel in confronting the Iranian regime. The regime must fall”

  Party statement, 15 March 2026

  The PA said this in a statement, Daily News reported. It came after US and Israeli strikes on Iran. The PA says it stands with the US and Israel against Iran's government. It wants that government to fall. The report does not say what the PA wants South Africa's government to do.

• “The South Africa Friends of Israel sponsored a select group of MPs to travel to Israel, where they met the Israeli President Isaac Herzog and government officials.”

  News report, 29 July 2025

  EWN reported that South African Friends of Israel paid for a group of MPs (MP (Member of Parliament) A person who sits in Parliament, which makes South Africa's laws. They are not chosen in this local election.) to visit Israel. They met Israel's president, Isaac Herzog, and government officials. Sauls listed the trip in Parliament's register (Register of Members' Interests Parliament's public list where each MP must write down gifts, trips, paid work and shares, and who gave them. Anyone can read it.). EWN said Mathopa did not list it at all.

• “We request the House and the applicable Ministry to advocate for the dignified return of this South African-born captain’s body from Hamas.”

  In Parliament, 6 May 2025

  Ashley Sauls, a PA MP, said this in Parliament (Parliament South Africa's national law-makers, in Cape Town. It has two parts, the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces.). It was a member's statement, a short speech any MP can make at the start of a sitting. He spoke about Daniel Perez, a South African-born Israeli soldier who he says died fighting Hamas, a Palestinian armed group. Sauls says the body is still in Gaza. He wants Parliament and the government to use talks with other countries to bring it home.

• “The senior leaders of the PA also had a trip to Israel in 2023, and were equally open and proud of it.”

  News report, 10 April 2025

  PA spokesperson Steve Motale said the PA's senior leaders also went to Israel in 2023, Daily Maverick reported. We found no other source for this trip, and no record of who paid for it or whom they met.

• “Saul said that he and fellow PA MP Mathopa were there with the blessing of the PA president, Gayton McKenzie, and his deputy, Kenny Kunene.”

  News report, 9 April 2025

  Daily Maverick reported that PA MPs Ashley Sauls and Millicent Mathopa were on a trip to Israel. It said the trip appeared to include a meeting with Israel's president, Isaac Herzog. Sauls said the PA's leader and deputy leader had given their blessing.

• “We want to first emphatically state that our position on the war in the Middle East is for a two-state solution. We are calling for a two-state solution.”

  In Parliament, 5 December 2024

  Ashley Sauls, a PA MP, spoke in Parliament on a bill that moved money to pay for South Africa's case against Israel. The case is at the ICJ, the UN's top court. The bill also held money for other things, such as roads. He said the PA backed it as a partner in the national unity government. He said the PA wants two states.

• Party statement, 12 May 2024

  EWN, a news outlet, reported on the PA's view of the war in Gaza. The PA wants a two-state solution, which means Israel and a Palestinian state side by side. It says it is against killing people on both sides. Its deputy president Kenny Kunene said the party cares more about problems at home, like water. The report does not say what the PA wants the government to do.

We found nothing. Checked 27 October 2026.

• “Dit was ’n belangrike stap om ons verhouding met China te versterk”

  In Parliament, 12 September 2025

  J A Basson, a PA MP, spoke in Parliament on a committee's report about its trip to China. She said in Afrikaans that the trip was an important step to strengthen South Africa's ties with China.

• “South Africa must seize this moment”

  Party statement, 15 March 2026

  The PA said this after its leader, Gayton McKenzie, met the new US ambassador (Ambassador The top person a country sends to speak for it in another country.), Leo Brent Bozell III. An ambassador speaks for his country in another country. Ties between the two countries were tense after Donald Trump became US president again. The PA says the new ambassador brings a chance to repair and build up those ties. It says they matter a lot for South Africa's economy, so the country should use this chance.

• “America needs South Africa and South Africa needs America, and if we are not working together, we will both lose.”

  In Parliament, 6 March 2025

  Gayton McKenzie, the PA leader and a minister, spoke in Parliament's debate on the US stopping aid to South Africa. He said the two countries need each other, and both lose if they do not work together.

• “I do think that we need to address the Americans and try to fix the relationship”

  Party statement, 9 February 2025

  Gayton McKenzie, the PA leader, said this on a podcast, an online talk show. The US had just cut aid money, including money for HIV and AIDS programmes. McKenzie backed President Ramaphosa for saying South Africa will not be bullied. But he says the two countries need each other, because the US is a big trading partner. He wants the leaders to talk and repair ties, because he says losing US money costs jobs and lives.

• “But the biggest thing America did wrong was to believe this saying ‘White people are under siege’. That is not true.”

  News report, 9 February 2025

  The Post reported that PA leader Gayton McKenzie said the US was wrong about white South Africans. He said it is not true that white people are "under siege" in South Africa.

We found nothing. Checked 27 October 2026.