Comment from The Common Sense: The next local government election, which is likely to be held towards the end of the year, will likely see no party win a majority in a record number of municipalities, including most of the metros. However, a potential governing arrangement, which would be relatively stable and has the support of most South Africans, would be a government of local unity between the DA and the ANC. Such an arrangement has widespread support across South Africa’s political spectrum and shows that there is more common ground among South African voters than is commonly perceived as being the case.