THE United Democratic Movement at Bushbuckridge on Thursday claims an Independent Electoral Commission official crooked the voting at nearby Cunningmoore polling station. United Democratic Movement spokesman Jerry Nkuna said the two-thirds majority achieved by the African National Congress at Cunningmoore on Wednesday was obtained fraudulently, and blamed IEC presiding officer Harries Maile. Nkuna said in […]
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 Independent Electoral Commission has denied SABC radio reports that election material was left unguarded at some polling stations in the former KwaNdebele. Provincial electoral officer, Steve Ngwenya, said on Tuesday that the reports were based on unconfirmed allegations by political parties that ballot papers and boxes had been left unguarded at Mjodjami polling station […]
DE BEERS announced on Thursday that more than 60 of its employees have volunteered to work at the Independent Electoral Commission’s results centre on June 2 and 3. Most of the volunteers are from De Beers’s information technology department. The staff came forward after the IEC approached the diamond mining company for assistance earlier this […]
Wally Mbhele The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) announced this week that it was ready to deliver South Africa’s second democratic elections and promised that the 1994 chaos that saw the shortage of ballot papers would not occur on June 2. They are expecting more than 20-million potential voters go to the polls. Confident IEC officials […]
THE Independent Electoral Commission announced on Tuesday that it has scrapped a total of 428 candidates from its final list for the elections. Deputy chief electoral officer Norman du Plessis said that some candidates lost their place on the lists because they failed to sign the relevant documents accepting their nomination, while on other applications […]
FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda is expected in the country early this week for seminar on democracy in South African organised by the Independent Electoral Commission. Kaunda will present a paper at the seminar to be held at the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria on April 21 to 23, said IEC spokesperson […]
A DECISION on whether South African citizens who live abroad will be able to vote in the upcoming June 2 elections is expected on Monday, amid clamour from expatriates and opposition political parties. The IEC has been inundated with requests from overseas, as well as buffeted by suits and demands from the National Party and […]
MPUMALANGA housing deputy director-general Steve Ngwenya has resigned to take up a post with the Independent Electoral Commission, MEC Craig Padayachee said on Tuesday. Addressing the provincial portfolio committee on housing and local government, Padayachee said Ngwenya will join the IEC as Mpumalanga’s electoral officer. Housing department spokesman Leon Mbangwa also resigned from the department […]
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/ 26 February 1999
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week The 16th century is back in vogue, what with Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth being released within weeks of each other and both up for loads of Oscars. Both are independent films and boast amazing production design, great performances and assured direction. Shakespeare in Love is the comedy, while […]