IEC officials in certain areas are under enormous pressure. At the Rotary polling station in KwaZulu-Natal, electoral officer Themba Cele said he feared his officials would not be able to cope with the 8000 people who had registered to vote there. “We have one scanner, one voters’ roll. We just can’t cope with the number […]
THE results for voting on Robben Island were announced by the Independent Electoral Commission at 8pm on Wednesday evening. Of the votes cast, the ANC took 56, the New National Party 13, the Democratic Party 3, the African Christian Democratic Party 2, and the Pan African Congress, United Democratic Movement and Freedom Front one each.The […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Thursday 11.30am. THE ANC is on track for a two thirds majority, having breached the 64% level with over half the votes counted in the elections. The ruling party’s figures have been steadily moving upwards on Thursday morning, sharply picking up from 5am until 10am. With rural areas where the ANC […]
THE PAC is facing a major leadership overhaul following its dismal performance in the elections. PAC president Stanley Mogoba says the party is going to have to rethink its structure, leadership and organisation if the pattern of the results continues. Mogoba says the PAC hoped to get 10% of the vote, but that seems elusive. […]
PRESIDENT Charles Taylor has said that Liberian authorities will destroy all arms and ammunition surrendered by ex-combatants and now held by the United Nations and African peacekeepers. He made the announcement in a radio broadcast late on Wednesday, saying that the decision was taken following consultations with the National Legislature, but gave no details of […]
AN official with the World Health Organization has urged African countries to improve their capacity for collection, processing and dissemination of health information. The WHO country representative Edward Maganu said in Lusaka on Tuesday while officially opening a four-day training course on the African Index Medicus that more often than not, African countries depend on […]
THE European Union says it will lift all remaining sanctions against Nigeria and resume development aid from Thursday. In a statement, the 15-member bloc says its decision follows the inauguration of the civilian government whose president, Olusegun Obasanjo, was sworn in on Saturday. The EU imposed the embargo in 1995 to protest the execution of […]
THE national parks of South Africa and the United States have agreed to work together after the director of the US National Parks Service toured several local reserves, said spokesperson for the National Parks, Adel Smit, on Thursday. She said the director of the US National Parks Service, Robert Stanton, visited the Kruger National Park, […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00P: AMID the instability of South African markets, a positive outlook in South Africa’s macroeconomic indicators has pulled the country up the ranks of the World Economic Forum’s global competitiveness report, rising from a low base of 44 to 42. More notable, however, is an assessment of South Africa’s micro indicators, which show dramatic […]
A GROUP of European parliamentarian observers on Thursday praised South Africa’s elections and found that they meet international standards. Dr Jan Nico Scholten, president of the European Parliamentarians for Africa, said these elections have set a high standard that any country in the world would be proud to obtain.” He noted that there has been […]