ANC voters have not crossed to the DA, despite an increase in the opposition party’s share of the votes, said Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi on Friday.
Beneath the surface tensions were seething, especially in Thembisa where a final call for a no-vote campaign was being made.
Although Cope didn’t win any council outright, they were set to act as kingmaker in a number of municipalities where the ANC and DA were neck and neck
It is voting day in Thembisa and the Caprivi Pub — not a polling station — is the centre of the action where nonvoters gather to enjoy the day.
The Democratic Alliance’s strategy to rebrand itself and create a home for people of all colours pays off.
The African National Congress won control of the Johannesburg Metro, receiving more than 1,2-million votes, the IEC confirmed on Friday.
The most hotly contested local elections are now over and all the political parties are putting their own spin on what’s been a bruising contest.
Excitement, controversy and "toilet wars" all contributed to an unprecedented 57% of the electorate turning out to vote in the municipal elections.
The DA believes it will win its first overall majority in the Cape Town metropolitan council, predicting "somewhere between 57% and 60%".
A harried week of phone banking and social networking marked parties’ final drive.
The ANC won the Potchefstroom municipality in North West comfortably, in spite of the party’s failure to register candidates in seven wards.
Despite the ANC’s best efforts, voters endorse the party pushing service delivery.
Political parties’ fortunes have waxed and waned in the past five years. We’ve contrasted some of the 2011 poll’s trends with the 2006 results.
Using piles of rocks, protesters have blocked the only road leading into Morutsi village in Limpopo as an attempt to disrupt polling.
In a remarkable electoral feat, the Democratic Alliance has improved its standing in all provinces, based on 71% of the vote.
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) was well on track with capturing results of the local government elections on Thursday.
Cope was to blame for the Nelson Mandela Bay metropolitan council remaining in ANC hands, Cope officials themselves conceded.
Despite the DA’s best performance yet, holding on to Cape Town and Midvaal with ease, it was not able to win Nelson Mandela Bay from the ANC.
South Africans proved themselves a nation of procrastinators, with 20 765 would-be voters flooding home affairs offices on the day of the polls.
The African National Congress was "very disappointed" over losing Midvaal in Gauteng to the Democratic Alliance.
The African National Congress had garnered more than 60% of the 10,9-million local government election votes counted by 7am on Thursday morning.
The ANC enjoyed a significant lead in Nelson Mandela Bay as the results of the municipal elections began trickling in on Thursday.
A shockingly low turnout of voters in Mpumalanga was reported on Thursday morning when bleary-eyed party officials returned to the IEC in Pretoria.
The Independent Electoral Commission is expecting only 40% of the voter turnout, a lower percentage to the 2006 local government.
With just 131 071 votes counted by midnight on Wednesday, the ruling party had 55,76% of the vote for wards and the DA came in at 33,48%.
Despite media reports that the Afrikaner community of Orania in the North West would be boycotting the municipal elections, 65 residents voted.
Preliminary data on the turnout for the local government elections indicated that 23% of registered voters had cast their ballots by 7pm on Wednesday.
The storm in a teacup over bulk SMSs sent by political parties continued on election day, with voters receiving SMSs from the DA.
The first results of the 2011 municipal elections came in at 8:22pm on Wednesday, more than one hour after voting stations around the country closed.
With polls closed, excitement is growing inside the IEC results centre in Pretoria, the prospect of won wards competing with the dread of lost votes.
As the polls opened for the local government elections, one resident of Zandspruit, near Jo’burg, woke up hoping this day would bring change.
A 53-year old voter died of a heart attack while waiting in a queue to vote in Tafelsig on the Cape Flats on Wednesday afternoon.