Ramaphosa has sent a letter to PA leader Gayton McKenzie to demand an explanation or face being excluded from municipal and metropolitan coalitions with the ANC...

This included substantial funding from the party's leader Gayton McKenzie who declared three consecutive donations of R250 000 R2 289 130 and R220 000 in October November and December 2023 and R1 007 250 from his deputy Kenny Kunene in the same quarter...

Split over dealThe ANC's rickety alliance with the EFF and smaller parties such as Ganief Hendricks's Al Jama-ah and Gayton McKenzie's Patriotic Alliance in Johannesburg could be the blueprint for a deal at the national and provincial level...

The most significant smaller parties with representation are Herman Mashaba's ActionSA the right-wing Freedom Front Plus led by Pieter Mulder and ex-jailbird Gayton McKenzie's Patriotic Alliance...

Current leaders who emerged strengthened in last year's local government elections such as ActionSA's Herman Mashaba the Patriotic Alliance's Gayton McKenzie and a long list of independent candidates are likely beneficiaries of the post-Zondo political mood...

Newcomers such as Herman Mashaba's Action SA (2%) and Gayton McKenzie's Patriotic Front (PF) – and a plethora of independent candidates (10%) – make up the new more diverse political landscape...

Parties such as Good led by Western Cape veteran Patricia de Lille Gayton McKenzie's Patriotic Alliance Bantu Holomisa's United Democratic Movement Mangosuthu Buthelezi's Inkatha and the African Christian Democratic Party all hope for big gains from narrowly targeted local campaigns...

Influential outsidersOutside the ANC the two most influential politicians in the province are probably the DA's Randall Williams and the Patriotic Alliance (PA)'s Gayton McKenzie...