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Mosotho Moepya, chairperson of IEC South Africa. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

IEC warns it will prosecute voters who use fake addresses

IEC chairperson Mosotho Moepya has emphasised that the commission will investigate registration irregularities

(Alinanuswe Mwanguku/AFP)

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 electoral commission secretary Chief Livhuwani Matsila

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 President Elect Daniel Chapo. (Alfredo Zuniga/AFP via Getty Images)

Mozambique election: Frelimo’s Daniel Chapo declared election winner amid tension

The party that has ruled Mozambique since 1975 remains popular

MK Party members brandish a banner with the face of former ANC and state president, Jacob Zuma. (Photo by Darren Stewart/Gallo Images via Getty Images)

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

Only 107 of more than 20 000 polling stations were unable to open on Monday for special votes. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Electoral commission releases timetable for poll

Voters can inspect the roll to ensure they have been correctly registered

UK Prime Ministwr Boris Johnson. (Photo by Tolga Akmen – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

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

It’s a bad time for Brazil’s president, Jair Bolsonaro. With an election coming up next year, his poll numbers are dropping rapidly. (Nacho Doce/Reuters)

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…

Millions of Zambians regularly exercise their democratic right at the ballot box (GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP via Getty Images)

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…

The National Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) is urging businesses and employers to ensure that registered voters can cast their vote on 29 May.

‘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 Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party

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

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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

The IEC wrote to the 47 parties’ lawyers, saying their demands were unreasonable and unlawful. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Western Cape off to voting start despite minor glitches

Police are monitoring morning protests in Khayelitsha, Siqalo, and Plettenberg Bay on the Garden Route

Last month, the court declared that the EFF had defamed Trevor Manuel when they falsely accused him of corruption and nepotism. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

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

The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has urged eligible citizens to make use of its online registration platform to minimise long queues .
(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

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

Andry Rajoelina (Reuters)

Ex-president Rajoelina wins Madagascar vote

Rajoelina has returned to power after he won 55.66% against 44.34% for Marc Ravalomanana in the run-off vote held last week

The decision was in favour of an appeal brought by an intersex adult and said that courts and state authorities should no longer compel intersex people to choose between identifying as male or female. (Edgard Garrido/Reuters)

SADC fiddles while the DRC burns

The inept regional organisation needs to recognise the fire and take steps to extinguish it

Elections 2014: IEC upholds one candidate objection

The IEC says only one objection to candidates on the political parties’ lists has been upheld, after it received 45.

Zim: Opposition figure convicted after flagging electoral fraud

An opposition official in Zimbabwe who reported finding dumped ballot papers in a dustbin has been convicted of fraud and breaching electoral laws.

Vote-rigging fears grow in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe’s ruling party edged ahead of the main opposition on Tuesday with over half of parliamentary election results released as concerns grew that President Robert Mugabe was…