RISE Mzansi is a centrist, non-racial party founded in 2023 that campaigns on ethical leadership, meritocratic governance and social justice. It pairs pro-poor social provision (free basic services, indigent relief) with support for decentralised, community-owned energy.
It did not exist for the 2021 LGE, so 2026 is its first local-government contest; in Johannesburg it is running a mayoral campaign led by Lukhona Mnguni.
A match on these questions is not agreement with a party's whole programme. Here are other policies we did not ask you about.
Other recorded policies from RISE Mzansi
Clinics become primary-care centres within a fifteen-minute ride.
Three-month conditional job-seekers grant tied to skills training completion.
Selected policies, not a full manifesto or ballot list. National policies are context, not powers a council can exercise on its own. Local plans can also need other agencies. Read dates and sources before deciding.
End cadre deployment; competitive, transparent, merit-based appointments to key leadership posts
visita.co.zaFree electricity for all low-income households between 9am and 3pm daily once the crisis is resolved
visita.co.zaShift to a decentralised energy system: local solar production and community energy cooperatives
visita.co.zaCreate an independent, well-resourced anti-corruption agency and blockchain-based procurement transparency
visita.co.zaBasic healthcare within a 15-minute ride of every home
visita.co.zaSkills training for one million people without matric
Top municipal jobs, like the city manager and the head of finance, should be filled by an independent panel. Political parties should have no say in who gets them.
"Would replace cadre deployment with competitive, transparent, accountable selection and merit-based appointments to key leadership posts."
The law should stop the municipality from raising rates and service charges (water, electricity, refuse) by more than inflation each year.
Note: No separate 2026 LGE manifesto document was found. The live official site still promotes the People's Manifesto alongside its Johannesburg campaign. On 16 September Gana confirmed GOOD-RISE candidates in 32 municipalities across five provinces and five municipal priorities. GOOD's 19 September Cape Town manifesto is not automatically attributed to RISE. Q6, Q10, Q14 and Q19 are cleared: household solar, national immigration enforcement, SAPS detective recruitment and silence on ownership are insufficient for those specific municipal statements. Q4 and Q8 are recalibrated to partial free-service funding evidence and explicit racial procurement preference. The 2024 PDF opens but is truncated even with a targeted extraction hint. A Politicsweb full-text copy separately verifies solar, procurement, land and alcohol passages; a 21 January 2024 eNCA report verifies Zibi's free-electricity pledge. These older sources remain stale-confirmed after newer-policy searches. Q11's undated live campaign page uses 2026-09 as the access month, not a claimed publication date.
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Start the quizPoor households should get more free water and electricity, even if better-off households pay more to cover it.
"Zibi promises free electricity through solar projects; larger water allocations and funding through higher tariffs on better-off households are not specified."
The municipality should cut off water and electricity to anyone who does not pay their bill, including businesses and government departments.
Where the municipality is failing at electricity, water or rubbish removal, it should pay private companies to run those services.
"Manifesto: 'develop a local solar production and installation industry, helping households... reduce their reliance on fossil fuels'; favours decentralised, community-cooperative and household energy, mixed, not contracting private firms to run municipal services."
The municipality should cancel what poor households still owe on old water and electricity bills.
Every home should be put on prepaid electricity and water meters, including homes that now pay a monthly bill.
The municipality should buy electricity from private producers and from homes with solar panels, instead of only from Eskom.
"Supports local solar production, installation and decentralised household electricity; moving beyond Eskom-only supply, though municipal purchasing is not expressly specified."
When the municipality hands out contracts, it should stop giving black-owned businesses preference and choose only on price and ability to do the job.
"Would use government procurement to give genuinely black- and women-owned companies preferential access, subject to quality, innovation and value."
Security guards, cleaners and other contract workers should become permanent municipal employees, even if that costs more than using private companies.
"Urges release of Pikitup's legal opinion on casual workers and fair labour practices; no explicit position on permanent municipal insourcing."
Before giving anyone a house, a trading permit or a business licence, the municipality should check that they are in the country legally.
"Manifesto's 'Managing Immigration' section (p53, beyond the fetched 48k-char extent) seeks to reduce irregular immigration via national employer enforcement and asylum reform; it proposes no municipal immigration-status verification for housing/permits/licences."
Only spaza shops and street traders with a licence should be allowed to trade. Those without one should be shut down.
"Undated campaign page supports traders with water, waste collection and trading spaces rather than council harassment; it does not explicitly waive licensing."
Only South African citizens and permanent residents should be allowed to own or run spaza shops and street stalls.
"Manifesto mandates a Competition Commission study of the supermarket/spaza sector and seeks to reduce irregular immigration, but sets no citizens-only ownership rule for spaza shops (economy/immigration section beyond the fetched 48k-char extent)."
When people occupy land or buildings illegally, they should be removed straight away, even if they have nowhere else to go.
The municipality should take over hijacked and abandoned buildings in the city centre and turn them into affordable housing.
"Supports lawful land expropriation and spatial planning. Inference only: the quoted passage concerns food security, not specifically acquiring hijacked buildings for housing."
Metro police should get more officers and the power to investigate crimes, not only handle traffic and by-laws.
"Manifesto: 'Employing and training more detectives and forensic specialists; Greater community involvement in crime intelligence gathering', strengthens investigative, intelligence-led policing (framed SAPS-wide, not explicitly expanding metro-police investigative powers)."
The municipality should limit the hours taverns and bottle stores may sell alcohol, and close those next to schools and homes.
"Supports efficient regulation of alcohol sales in violent-crime areas; specific trading-hour limits or closures near schools and homes are not stated."
Renaming streets and public places after people from all of South Africa's history should carry on, even when it costs money and some residents object.