THE Independent Electoral Commission was forced to quarantine four full ballot boxes in Ermelo on Tuesday after their seals were broken. Seals on three of the boxes from different polling stations were apparently simply not closed, while the seal on a fourth box appears to have been broken by accident while being transported. All four […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.10pm. THE Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) claims that several employers, some large-scale, are requiring employees to work on Wednesday, election day. The party alleges that businesses are “conniving with certain political parties to deny workers the right to vote so that these parties benefit from the outcome […]
POLLING stations opened late on Wednesday in several parts of Mpumalanga because more than 300000 ballot papers were not delivered to the right places. IEC provincial media officer Leon Mbangwa said some ballot papers intended for Standerton, White River, Middelburg, and the Lowveld District Council were delivered instead to the IEC offices in Nelspruit. “We […]
POLLING stations in the Highveld region of Mpumalanga have requested extended voting hours as snags and staff shortages are preventing them from processing more than 100 voters per hour. IEC media spokesman Leon Mbangwa said on Wednesday afternoon that polling stations in the rural Moutse and Mbibane areas of the former KwaNdebele had requested that […]
UP TO 200 people are feared to have been killed in intercommunal fighting in southern Nigeria’s oil-producing Delta region. Reports in most newspapers on Wednesday put the toll of the clashes, which began on Saturday with an attack on the town of Arunton, at around 200, the worst in the area for some time. The […]
CHRISTIAN Solidarity International, a non-governmental organisation involved in a controversy over Sudan’s slave trade, said on Wednesday it had freed almost 1400 slaves in May. CSI has liberated a total of 9112 Sudanese slaves since the start of its campaign in 1995. The Zurich-based NGO frees the slaves by buying them. The method has been […]
ABOUT 3000 people are waiting in voting queues filling the park surrounding Yeoville’s Community Centre where Gauteng’s second largest polling station is based. Voters are waiting on average of four and a half hours to get to the polls. The IEC says the pace is picking up, with voters going into the two voting halls […]
THE President and Cabinet unanimously agreed to the nomination of Mr Justice Sandile Ngcobo to the Constitutional Court, according to a statement by the office of President Nelson Mandela. The statement responded to media reports of Deputy President Thabo Mbeki’s intervention to appoint Ngcobo. Attempting to clarify the process, the statement notes that the Judicial […]
GRAHAM GRIFFITHS, London | Wednesday 2.45pm. MCGRATH against Tendulkar….an early confrontation between tournament heavyweights South Africa and Pakistan….buoyant Zimbabwe battling to reach the semifinals for the first time. These are among the appetising ingredients that make up the compelling cricket cocktail which is in prospect for the second stage of the World Cup when the […]
POLLING stations opened late in several parts of Mpumalanga because more than 300000 ballot papers were delivered to the wrong places. IEC provincial media officer Leon Mbangwa said some ballot papers intended for Standerton, White River, Middelburg, and the Lowveld District Council were delivered instead to the IEC offices in Nelspruit. With the help of […]