Easy promises and cheap votes: Why people vote the way they do
By this time next week, we should hopefully have a better picture of who will be the new administrators of our municipalities following Monday's elections.
It's likely going to be an interesting result - with experts warning that there will be a low voter turnout and as a result more coalitions than we saw in the previous elections.
With this in mind, Media24 commissioned a survey to get an understanding of what makes a voter vote the way they do, or, in some cases, not vote at all.
Find out in this week's edition of Friday Briefing what Gareth van Onselen, the CEO of Victory Research, managed to unpack in the survey that was conducted over two weeks in October.
There are certainly some thought-provoking findings which would do political parties some good if they took some notes.
On the back of that, we asked some News24 staff to reflect on the municipalities they live in.
And finally as a bonus, we asked deputy CEO for Code for Africa, Chris Roper, to tell us if he could make more sense of Iqbal Survé's media briefing on Wednesday on the now supposed trafficked Tembisa 10 babies than we could.
It's a good read before the weekend.
Best,
Vanessa Banton
Opinions Editor
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