The DA has laid charges against five North West policemen who allegedly intimidated the DA’s deputy chairperson in the North West.
As the excitement of South Africa’s election fades to a memory, newly elected MPs will focus their attention on taking up their seats in Parliament.
The ANC looked in danger late on Friday of losing its grip on a two-thirds majority in this week’s elections that swept Jacob Zuma to power.
Many opposition parties were wiping the sand out of their eyes on Friday as ballot counting churned up the political landscape.
South Africa’s fourth democratic elections took place in a peaceful atmosphere, the SADC electoral observer mission said on Friday.
Cope has already won more than 20 seats in Parliament, according to early estimates, seemingly eating into the support base of its older rivals.
The rand slipped against the dollar on Friday as some investors worried about the size of the ruling ANC’s huge election majority.
Fans of Nando’s can look forward to new humorous TV adverts while tucking into their chicken wings on Saturday night, it emerged on Friday.
Why did the Congress of the People fare so badly? This was the central question which emerged from South Africa’s fourth democratic election.
With nearly 66% of a potential 4,4-million votes tallied, it was clear that the ANC had made inroads into rural areas long viewed as its stronghold.
When it announced that about 50 ANC MPs would cross to Cope, the ANC went into panic mode.
The DA was the biggest beneficiary of the overseas vote that took place two weeks ago. It received 7 581 (77%) of the 9 857 votes.
It has been a brutal campaign, stretching back to the ANC’s Mafikeng conference in 1997, but Jacob Zuma can’t spend too much time taking victory laps.
Johannesburg Central Prison’s soccer field was transformed into a polling station on Wednesday as up to a 1 000 inmates cast their votes.
Hundreds of African National Congress supporters braved a wintry Johannesburg on Thursday night to celebrate the party’s victory.
It was an easy win for the ANC. But what quickly emerged was that a shift had occurred in the South African political landscape.
Patricia de Lille takes a seat, far away from the other political parties, watching as the overseas voter results appear on the screen at the IEC.
By midday on Thursday DA leader Helen Zille was happy that her party was on track to make their target of receiving 15% of the national vote.
The African National Congress Youth League has persuaded Nando’s to can its ”disgusting” television and radio adverts featuring a puppet named Julius.
The number of votes coming into the IEC’s national results centre picked up from a trickle to more substantial numbers by Thursday afternoon.
The African National Congress leader who looks set to be South Africa’s next president may have to choose between his many wives.
The ANC’s lead in the national election took a 0,13% dip over lunchtime on Thursday as more results from Gauteng polling stations became available.
The ANC was leading the race in eight of the nine provinces late on Thursday morning while the ruling party has also increased its lead over the DA.
Many deserted the IFP, some changed their votes to Cope, and others just kept on voting for SA’s liberation movement, the ANC.
DA leader Helen Zille told the Mail & Guardian Online on Thursday that the party is ”not very happy” about the election results.
Gauteng — the crucial province that will determine the outcome of the national vote — is also the one dragging its feet in releasing results.
The murder of a leading activist of the Congress of the People (Cope), put a blight on the peaceful conduct of Wednesday’s general election.
With three million votes counted, the ANC is cruising to another convincing victory in South Africa’s fourth democratic election.
With more than 300 000 votes counted in this year’s general election, the 60% mark continued to elude the ruling African National Congress.
The African National Congress managed to secure three votes (1,08%) in the conservative Northern Cape town of Orania in Wednesday’s national election.
At midnight on Wednesday the elections results showed that the ANC is in poll position to take the majority in the 2009 national elections.
The DA took an early lead in this year’s general election with the publication of the first results just before 11pm on Wednesday in Pretoria.