With polls closed, excitement is growing inside the IEC results centre in Pretoria, the prospect of won wards competing with the dread of lost votes.
As the polls opened for the local government elections, one resident of Zandspruit, near Jo’burg, woke up hoping this day would bring change.
A 53-year old voter died of a heart attack while waiting in a queue to vote in Tafelsig on the Cape Flats on Wednesday afternoon.
Voter turnout figures have begun trickling in, showing that 16% of SA’s 23,6-million registered voters had cast their ballot by 3pm on Wednesday.
No matter their background, voters across Johannesburg said they want change after the elections, but that didn’t always mean switching allegiances.
DA leader Helen Zille has laid a complaint with the IEC in Nelson Mandela Bay after she discovered several voters were casting only one ballot.
Africa is set to be the world’s next investment destination thanks to reforms sweeping the continent, says ex-Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo.
Al-Qaeda has appointed an Egyptian militant as temporary leader, al-Jazeera reported on Wednesday.
Voting in Eshowe in KZN turned into a meat and greet as voters, and President Zuma, were met with competing political choirs — and boerewors rolls.
The steady rise of South Africa on the monthly Fifa rankings continued on Wednesday when they reached fourth place in Africa.