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The Rio Times Africa Intelligence

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

By Matthias Camenzind, Publisher

Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban choose new city councils today

South Africans vote on Wednesday 4 November in local elections that choose the councils running every city, including Johannesburg, the country’s biggest city. National Treasury, the finance ministry, has said it will stay in Johannesburg for three years whoever wins, after warning in April that it could withhold funding. The mayor, Dada Morero of the governing African National Congress (ANC), said in May that the city is “definitely not bankrupt”. Traders on Polymarket, a prediction market, put the chance that Helen Zille of the Democratic Alliance (DA) becomes mayor at 56.5%, and on Kalshi, a US-regulated one, at 62% (1:32 a.m. Eastern, 4 November); those are bets, not polls. How the parties form coalitions after the count is not yet known.

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TRUMP SAYS HE COULD GO TO ISRAEL AND BECOME PRIME MINISTER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPW9Ey2SCpA
Hmm, the idea is not without merit, e.g., as PM would he send billions to Israel's greatest ally?
If he does to Israel what he did to America, I will put on a kippah and vote for him.