The DA gained 3.2 percentage points in the Western Cape provincial election – but not at the expense of the ANC.
Despite internal party strife in Nelson Mandela Bay, the ANC crossed the 70% mark in the Eastern Cape, followed by the DA.
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 killing of Winnie "Nu" Mhlongo on her 30th birthday in Kwadukuza has underscored the province’s political intolerance and its resultant violence.
The relatively unknown AIC, a party with a name and logo "reminiscent" to the ANC, has leapt ahead of Agang SA to gain two seats in Parliament.
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.
Images of dumped ballot papers found in a field in Pretoria have caused a minor outrage, but are likely only to be an issue if a recount is need.
The IFP says its supporters held election officials and ANC members hostage after apparently seeing ballot boxes being loaded into a strange car.
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.
Minister Lindiwe Sisulu takes on Ronnie Kasrils and allows us insight into the truth of what it means to be an ANC politician, writes Chris Roper.
A day after the polls, ANC and IEC offices were forced shut after disgruntled IFP supporters allegedly held ANC members hostage there.
Public enterprises minister says government will use the next 20 years to pursue more radical economic programs and help black entrepreneurs.
With no major incidents or impediments reported, and only one formal objection by noon on Thursday, the 2014 election result faces no serious hurdles.
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.
The 2014 election has not felt like a historic moment and significant stories have been few, writes Franz Krüger.
Last week, our conflicted voter threatened to stay in bed on election day. But, shock! Horror! Just like a politician he changed his mind this week.
Can the Democratic Alliance chart a way forward for liberalism and rid itself of a pernicious form of whiteness, asks Christi van der Westhuizen.
Cyril Ramaphosa is likely to assume more power, but this may make him too much of a threat, writes Richard Calland.
Jabu Mncwango from the KwaMashu Hostel says she remembers seeing an ANC supporter beaten for wearing party colours but it doesn’t deter her.
Young people are disillusioned by the elections, failing to register and attacking polling stations in areas like Bekkersdal on the West Rand.
The feeling that a municipal merger of Zamdela and Sasolburg with Parys could still happen has shaded the calm with uneasiness and suspense.
Rastafarian prophet Andrew Saulls knows his neighbourhood well and predicts it will only get better under the ruling party.
In Mitchells Plain, Geraldine trusts the DA with her children and grandchildren’s future.
Elections may be the political event of the year, but as far as financial analysts are concerned it’s a snooze-worthy affair on the economic calendar.
Lonmin mineworker Thabang Booysen was determined to cast his ballot, even though he doesn’t know "that much about politics".
A young man says the peaceful election in his home town of Tumahole near Parys means his father did not die in vain in 1994.
This year’s polls will be memorable only for how they set the scene for the white-knuckle election in 2019 – the vote that will change everything.
Many unemployed youth in violence-stricken Bekkersdal are disillusioned with parties’ promises of jobs and chose not to vote in this election.