The IEC can breathe a big sigh of relief after EFF leader Julius Malema accepted election results, even going as far as congratulating the ANC and DA.
Nomvula Mokonyane says the army has moved in Alexandra after protests there over arrested demonstrators turned violent.
The DA gained 3.2 percentage points in the Western Cape provincial election – but not at the expense of the ANC.
The EFF has marched on the IEC’s provincial operations centre in Gauteng to demand the immediate release of the province’s election results.
The ANC shed five percentage points of its support in Limpopo, but Cope saw its 2009 second-place finish usurped by the EFF in another humiliation.
Despite dropping six percentage points, the ANC has won the provincial vote in the North West, the province in which the Marikana massacre took place.
The EFF has grown angry over the slow pace of vote counting in Gauteng, fearing it is linked to the ANC’s poor showing so far in the province.
The traditional stronghold of the ruling party gave the ANC a 78.33% win, while the DA has come in a distant second with 10.4% of the provincial vote.
The Northern Cape’s votes have been counted, and while the DA and ANC have walked away smiling, Cope has been left humiliated.
The DA and new kid on the block, the EFF, have together absorbed almost the same number of votes as Cope has lost in the Northern Cape.
Early projections show the ruling party will likely keep over 60% of SA’s support. But it won’t get a two-thirds majority in Parliament.
Citizens will be glued to media over the next few days as the results of SA’s fifth national democratic election trickle in.
EFF leader Julius Malema has told mineworkers in Rustenburg to intensify their strike for a better wage.
Supporters this weekend packed stadiums for the last time before SA votes. Here are some memorable statements from the final round of campaigning.
As parties campaigned over the weekend, the ANC’s plans faltered at the end, the DA’s guerrilla marketing fell flat and the EFF came out ahead.
Julius Malema managed to mention a host of heavy topics with a light touch at the EFF’s final election rally as his audience clung to his every word.
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has appealed to party supporters to give him a chance to lead the country and prove himself.
It could be a sign of things to come, or another party that will wither away. But for now the EFF has put up an impressive show at its final rally.
The Economic Freedom Fighters have said IEC chair Pansy Tlakula should resign before election day, and accused the ANC of trying to foil EFF rallies.
The inquiry to oust IEC head Pansy Tlakula is unlikely to be resolved before elections, but some applicants say they expected this.
Not only did prisoner rights activist Golden Miles Bhudu lose a legal bid to postpone the election, he has been arrested for wearing a prison uniform.
EFF leader Julius Malema has told SABC acting COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng to change his ways or risk being thrown out "like a used a condom" by Zuma.
Members of the EFF are marching in protest of Icasa’s ruling, which was in favour of the SABC’s decision not to flight the party’s election advert.
Icasa ruled in the SABC’s favour over complaints about DA and EFF election adverts – the DA launched a new ad, the EFF will march in protest.
Critising the ANC’s Cyril Ramaphosa and "greedy white people", the EFF’s Julius Malema says the country has nothing to celebrate on Freedom Day.
You get two kinds of politicians: those who come from prison and those who must go to prison. Julius Malema belongs to the latter, says the PA leader.
The EFF leader is likely to receive a certificate allowing him to be a candidate in the upcoming election, but he could be disqualified in future.
Dismissing EFF-DA coalition rumours, EFF leader Julius Malema says the claims are "an attempt to defocus the EFF’s objective of taking government".
Following Julius Malema’s calls for white people to join the EFF, a party member says Afrikaners are interested in its economic beliefs.
The SABC says it has not banned the advert of the Economic Freedom Fighters but rejected it because it "incited violence".
Political party leaders have spent Easter Sunday encouraging people to cast their ballot in upcoming elections and not to heed the "Vote No" campaign.
Economic Freedom Fighters’ commander-in-chief Julius Malema took to social media to answer pressing questions from the public.