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WE KNOW that the 2021 local government elections outcome presents a strenuous test on two fronts. First, it diminished the unilateral control of municipal councils by the ANC. Second, it offers an extraordinary case of the decline of a democratically dominant party and the growth of opposition parties and civil society formations in local governance. These factors, and many others advanced elsewhere, create the perception that the ANC will face a storm of debris from these competing formations in the 2024 elections, writes Professor Sethulego Matebesi. | IOL