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PALI LEHOHLA | Polls capture noise, not structure: why SA must abandon municipal mythologies

TimesLIVE Politics · 19 October 2026 at 04:30

PALI LEHOHLA | Polls capture noise, not structure: why SA must abandon municipal mythologies

Census data shows that no new mayor can fix what decades of patronage have hollowed out, writes Pali Lehohla

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