Action SA is planning to take the IEC to court after it failed to undertake to address its concerns over the draft ballot papers for the local government elections
The Electoral Commission has asked the high court to postpone nine by-elections
Thousands of ballot papers from South Africa’s 116 missions are now being couriered to the Election House in Centurion.
The Institute for Accountability in Southern Africa has lodged an official objection to Jacob Zuma’s candidacy for presidency in the May elections.
With the final voter registration weekend set to close at 5pm on Sunday, the IEC says more than a million people were registered over the weekend.
The storm in a teacup over bulk SMSs sent by political parties continued on election day, with voters receiving SMSs from the DA.
Former president Nelson Mandela will cast a special vote at his Houghton home, north of Johannesburg, on Monday, the IEC said.
A number of party and independent candidates wanting to partake in the 2011 local municipal elections were notified of non-compliance.
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/ 18 September 2007
The mother of a schoolboy who was stabbed to death on the weekend is a senior Gauteng education official, the department confirmed on Tuesday. Mfundo Ntshangase, a grade 11 pupil at King Edward VII high school, was stabbed seven times by pupils from another school at a party on Sunday.
The Johannesburg High Court granted an interdict to the Gauteng education department on Wednesday forbidding the Congress of South African Students (Cosas) from intimidating pupils, the department confirmed. Spokesperson Kate Bapela said that under the interdict the organisation may not threaten, disrupt or frustrate teaching or learning.