Electoral Commission
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IEC chairperson Mosotho Moepya has emphasised that the commission will investigate registration irregularities
Road to Tanzania’s presidential election paved with blood and fear
In recent months, there has been a spate of abductions, assaults, arrests and murders, the victims all being opponents or critics of President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s government
ANC election commission secretary Matsila urges members not to elect ‘faces with the same problems’
The party wants people deployed in government to have tertiary qualifications
Mozambique election: Frelimo’s Daniel Chapo declared election winner amid tension
The party that has ruled Mozambique since 1975 remains popular
IEC approaches concourt to stop Zuma from contesting elections
The former president has told his supporters that the electoral commission has nothing to do with who becomes the president of the country, their job is to ensure that people vote
Electoral commission releases timetable for poll
Voters can inspect the roll to ensure they have been correctly registered
How Boris Johnson rigged British politics for the Tories
Johnson’s brief premiership has been a relentless assault on the UK’s freedoms – to organise, to protest, to vote
Make Brazil great again: Bolsonaro’s right-wing policies are not the trump
To understand more about what’s going on in South America’s most populous country, and what might happen next, The Continent spoke to João Bosco Monte, the head of the Brazil…
Five things to watch in the Zambian elections
Zambia will hold presidential elections in three weeks’ time amidst an ongoing economic crisis and rising political tensions. These are the five most important things to look out…
‘Super-Wednesday’ by-elections: all the data and who is contesting what
In this week’s by-elections, the ANC has the highest number of wards being contested. However, the turnout in some communities in areas in the Vaal district has been low — even…
India’s Modi on course for big election win
After four hours of counting the 600 million votes cast, Election Commission data showed Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party clearly in the lead
Editorial: Aim for unity in diversity
Although it deepens our democracy to see this equitable division of power, it also suggests that South Africans are moving further from each other
Western Cape off to voting start despite minor glitches
Police are monitoring morning protests in Khayelitsha, Siqalo, and Plettenberg Bay on the Garden Route
Malema to take Rawula to ‘the cleaners’
The EFF leader says he will sue former party member Thembinkosi Rawula for R1-million for defamatory comments
Parties to fork out R200 000 to participate in 2019 national elections
The IEC announced in a statement on Friday that it had approved election deposits for the 2019 national and provincial elections