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 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.
With three million votes counted, the ANC is cruising to another convincing victory in South Africa’s fourth democratic 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 ululating coursed through voters at the Ntolweni Primary School like a set of aural dominoes as Jacob Zuma stepped out of his 4X4 at Nxamalala.
Unlike many other VIPs, Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille stood in a queue when she went to vote on Wednesday, instead of going to the front.
Election day in SA has always been cause for celebration. While the shine of ’94 may have worn off, it’s still a day when communities come together.
Although only hours away from the country’s fourth general democratic elections, some South Africans remain undecided on which party to vote for.
Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille said “one vote can win it” on the eve of Wednesday’s 2009 national and provincial general election.
James Selfe, federal chairperson of the DA, pointed out to doubtful voters on Tuesday that they do not have to be in their home province to vote.
Opposition parties left it too late to capitalise on the negative perceptions of ANC president Jacob Zuma in their bid to sway undecided voters.
The DA’s final campaign for Wednesday’s general elections revealed vast support in the Blue Down area, between Cape Town and Somerset West on Tuesday.
The African National Congress (ANC) will retain its two-thirds majority, according to an Ipsos-Markinor poll published on Tuesday.
Allan Boesak, the Western Cape premier candidate for Cope, has invited DA leader Helen Zille to join his party.
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour on Monday welcomed a report clearing the doctors who recommended medical parole for Schabir Shaik.
A Mpumalanga DA youth leader was arrested on Monday morning for allegedly intimidating an ANC member, police said.
The ANC is poised to win a convincing majority in national polls on Wednesday on the back of an effective electoral machinery.
There will be no ”holy cows” under a Jacob Zuma presidency, and any issues Christians have about current laws can be raised, the ANC said on Thursday.
A lack of regulation over political party funding was the biggest threat to democracy in SA, political analyst Steven Friedman said on Wednesday.
The DA has called on Mokotedi Mpshe to resign after revelations that he borrowed from a Hong Kong ruling in his reasoning for dropping the Zuma case.
ANC president Jacob Zuma emerged as the favourite politician followed by DA leader Helen Zille among people questioned in a new pre-election survey.
Politicians warring for votes on the country’s lamp posts are decidedly unhappy at attacks on their carefully composed posters.
An opinion poll with no serious claim to scientific accuracy has identified Jacob Zuma as the sexiest politician in South Africa.
The ANC has defended Springbok rugby coach Peter de Villiers’s public endorsement of the party, saying he had the right to support any party.
DA leader Helen Zille reiterated her call for ANC president Jacob Zuma to have his day in court, either to be acquitted or convicted.
The Freedom Front Plus laid criminal charges against the Democratic Alliance at the Brooklyn police station in Pretoria on Friday.
A PR company has rejected a DA claim that there are ”serious grounds for concern” over R44-million it received from the Western Cape government.
The DA laid criminal charges against Jacob Zuma’s lawyer Michael Hulley and National Intelligence Agency deputy head Arthur Fraser on Thursday.
DA leader Helen Zille hit out at critics of her dance moves on Wednesday, saying dancing and singing were part of South Africa’s culture.