Sanlam’s "National Start Something Day" is all about overcoming apathy and planning for success.
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.
DA leader Helen Zille has laid a complaint with the IEC in Nelson Mandela Bay after she discovered several voters were casting only one ballot.
Voting in Eshowe in KZN turned into a meat and greet as voters, and President Zuma, were met with competing political choirs — and boerewors rolls.
The steady rise of South Africa on the monthly Fifa rankings continued on Wednesday when they reached fourth place in Africa.
President Jacob Zuma called for "proper" roads, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela called for jobs and voters called for faster queues on Wednesday.
Voting hours will be extended in some parts of Johannesburg where ballot papers arrived late and high voter turnout was reported, the IEC says.
South Africa’s 2011 local government elections were a further confirmation of a maturing democracy, President Jacob Zuma said on Wednesday morning.
The next head of the IMF should be from a developing country to ensure the interests of all countries are reflected in its operations, SA says.
There were only a few glitches as South Africans flocked to voting stations on Wednesday, said the IEC.
Politicians joined ordinary South Africans casting their votes as the local government elections got under way on Wednesday.
The atmosphere in Thembisa Square, the nerve centre of Wesselton township’s volatile ward five, on Tuesday took on the air of a carnival procession.
Residents of Tafelsig in Mitchell’s Plain on the Cape Flats swore they would not be voting on Wednesday after a violent protest in the area.
Ajax Cape Town are on the brink of their first South African championship and a fairytale finish to the career of coach Foppe de Haan.
South Africa’s fourth post-apartheid local government elections got under way without any hitches at 7am on Wednesday.
Mobile money is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the financial-services environment.
There is a plan to kill newly-elected IFP councillors after the local government elections, says party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
Davis Cup teammates and recent finalists in the Soweto Open, Rik De Voest and Izak van der Merwe began their campaigns on the gruelling French Open.
The department of home affairs will open offices across the country to provide services on election day, Ronnie Mamoepa said on Tuesday.
From 7am on Wednesday over 23-million registered voters will go to over 20 000 polling stations to choose a representative at local government level.
Annual headline inflation came in softer than expected in April, boosting views of analysts who expect interest rates to remain on hold through 2011.
Cope co-founder Mbhazima Shilowa on Tuesday denied rumours that he was planning to leave the party and rejoin the African National Congress.
Former president Nelson Mandela is recovering well from his illness and in "good spirits", President Jacob Zuma said after visiting him on Tuesday
The DA can win Nelson Mandela Bay from the ANC in the local government elections, DA leader Helen Zille said on Tuesday.
The failing health of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe could jeopardise efforts to resolve his nation’s political crisis, the ANC said on Tuesday.
A Gaddafi official says missing SA journalist Anton Hammerl has not been found, and a trial of detained journalists has been indefinitely delayed.
There were few problem areas requiring police attention ahead of Wednesday’s local government elections, police chief Bheki Cele said on Tuesday.
A decrease in tension ahead of Wednesday’s elections showed that there was a greater understanding of democracy, President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday.
The Presidency tried to convince the Constitutional Court on Tuesday that it should not be compelled to release a report on the Zimbabwe elections.
Right-wing Afrikaans singer Steve Hofmeyr says he no longer plans to sing the k-word, <em>Beeld</em> reported on Tuesday.