Johannesburg110 councils across South Africa are projected to hang.
Municipal budgets, water and power in those councils will be set in coalition deals.
The African National Congress and Democratic Alliance are centralising talks at head office to trade positions across councils.
ActionSA and the Patriotic Alliance are likely kingmakers as results are finalised this week.
How each outlet framed it
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- Daily Maverick
- names the ANC's likely central negotiators (Makhura, Mbalula, Potgieter, Ntuli) and notes Johannesburg's omission of Chikane
- Daily Maverick
- frames the DA's campaign as a bid for first place, quoting Hill-Lewis's 'two-horse race' line and its earlier start