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/ 3 February 2009
The ANC on Tuesday lodged a complaint with the IEC about violence in Nongoma, which the party claimed was perpetrated by IFP supporters.
SA will wrap up voter registration next month, ahead of hotly contested poll expected in the first half of the year, an elections spokesperson says.
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/ 10 December 2008
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has withdrawn from the court battle between the ANC and Cope.
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/ 3 December 2008
The IEC will oppose an urgent application by the ANC against the use of the name Congress of the People (Cope), it was reported on Wednesday.
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/ 25 November 2008
South African political parties have spoken out against political intolerance and violence ahead of next year’s general elections.
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/ 13 November 2008
There are now more than 21,6-million South Africans on the Independent Electoral Commission’s voters’ roll.
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/ 12 November 2008
More than 21,6-million South Africans have registered to vote in the 2009 election, the IEC said on Wednesday.
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/ 7 November 2008
The website of the IEC was ”clogged” by more than 180 000 visits to the site before noon on Friday, the commission said.
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/ 7 November 2008
A leader of the ANC breakaway movement, former Gauteng premier Mbhazima Shilowa, on Thursday unveiled the name of the new party.
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/ 11 October 2008
The law prohibits the registration of political parties whose names or logos are too similar to those of other parties, says the IEC.
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/ 21 September 2008
The IEC is using April 14 as the expected election day, but the final date will have to be announced by President Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 17 September 2008
The 2009 elections will be free and fair, and will not be compromised by political interference, the IEC said on Wednesday.
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/ 3 September 2008
The IEC will pay attention to its credibility in the 2009 elections following developments in the recent Kenyan and Zimbabwean polls, it says.
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) chief executive Dali Mpofu has conceded that the public broadcaster is under political pressure, but said it was resisting this pressure, Business Day reported on Thursday. ”The test is if you can withstand political pressure,” he said at a conference on media and electoral democracy held in Pretoria on Wednesday.
The South African Communist Party (SACP) on Tuesday expressed its deep concern at media reports signalling a ”looming battle” between the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board and management. ”We are deeply concerned,” SACP spokesperson Malesela Maleka said in a statement.
South Africa believes conditions for a free and fair election in Zimbabwe exist — at least on paper, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters at the Union Buildings, Pahad said the next 17 days in the run-up to the Zimbabwean presidential and parliamentary elections would be telling.
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/ 26 February 2008
KwaZulu-Natal has been able to show the world that when power is contested, people do not have to die, Dr Brigalia Bam, chairperson of the Independent Electoral Commission, said on Tuesday. She was speaking at the KwaZulu-Natal legislature in Pietermaritzburg on preparations for the 2009 election.
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/ 11 February 2008
The Democratic Alliance on Monday sided with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on a possible court challenge to the composition of the new South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board. Cosatu confirmed earlier it is considering legal action to have a new board appointed by the National Assembly.
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/ 18 January 2008
The government of Lesotho believes it has uncovered a plot by opposition political parties to assassinate some government ministers and business people, spokesperson Mothejoa Metsing said on Friday. Metsing said the government had uncovered a plot that was allegedly to take place during a planned mass work boycott in February.
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/ 23 December 2007
The new chairperson of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, Khanyisiwe Mkhonza, paid tribute to the outgoing board in a statement to the media on Sunday. Mkhonza, who is the current chairperson of the public broadcasting services board sub-committee, also acknowledged challenges facing the new board.
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/ 6 November 2007
The issue of floor-crossing should be resolved within months, says MP Vytjie Mentor, who chairs a parliamentary committee dealing with the matter. ”We don’t think that floor-crossing strengthens democracy. We have not seen empirical proof that it strengthens democracy,” she told a joint meeting with the home affairs committee on Tuesday.
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/ 14 October 2007
The people of Togo go to the polls on Sunday to choose MPs in elections where all the main political parties are represented, including Gilchrist Olympio’s Union of Forces for Change (UFC). After almost two decades of election boycotts, this is the first time that Olympio’s UFC is challenging the ruling Rally of Togolese People.
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/ 19 September 2007
Floor-crossing politicians managed to shift the majority party in control in 12 of the country’s 128 municipalities during the two-week crossing period, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said on Wednesday. The African National Congress gained the most councillors, the IEC figures showed.
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/ 19 September 2007
Too much ambition might leave a politician without a seat on a council — this was the lesson that some councillors learned the hard way during the recent floor-crossing period. Figures released by the Independent Electoral Commission on Wednesday showed that 30 councillors would have no seats on individual municipal councils.
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/ 11 September 2007
The United Independent Front (UIF) lost both its representatives in the National Assembly on Tuesday when they crossed the floor to the African National Congress. Its single proportional seat in the National Council of Provinces could also be in danger after one of its two Western Cape MPLs also defected to the ANC.
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/ 7 September 2007
One of the Cape Town councillors embroiled in the city’s floor-crossing battle said on Friday she did not know what party she belonged to any more. Georgina Sass was one of five Independent Democrats members that the newly formed National People’s Party claimed on Thursday had defected to it.
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/ 6 September 2007
The newly formed National People’s Party (NPP) on Thursday claimed that five former members of the Independent Democrats (ID) had crossed the floor, bringing their Cape Town metro seats with them. However, the ID said two of the five — Abdulla Omar and Aaron Kallie — were expelled from the party before the floor-crossing window opened.
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/ 2 September 2007
Uncertainty over the future of Cape Town’s coalition government continued on Sunday as the newly formed National People’s Party claimed to have secured the allegiance of 10 councillors. The coalition, led by the Democratic Alliance, holds power by a majority of 20 in the 210-seat council.