South Africa

Pretoria - In a nail-biting finish, all the votes from the capital city have been captured with the DA winning the most votes.

Pretoria - All eyes are on Gauteng’s metropolitan municipalities –Tshwane, Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni - as vote counting enters day three.

Pretoria - Buffalo City Municipality and eThekwini have become the latest metros to complete capturing their results in the 2016 Local Government Elections.

Pretoria - The Electoral Commission (IEC) has undertaken to resolve all 49 objections which are material to the outcome of the results of the 2016 municipal elections, it said on Friday evening.

Pretoria – The Electoral Commission says the outstanding vote results from metro and district councils are expected to be known within the next few hours.

Pretoria – As the counting of results for the 2016 Local Government Elections draws closer to an end, coalitions are becoming a reality for some metros and political parties are keeping their cards close to their chest.

Pretoria - The Free State has become the second province in the country to have all the votes counted, after the Northern Cape.

Pretoria – The counting of votes at the IEC’s Results Operations Centre in Pretoria is nearing completion.

Pretoria - Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has praised the Electoral Commission of South Africa for its integrity in conducting the 2016 Municipal Elections, and thanked South Africans for exercising their democratic right to vote.

Pretoria - The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) is still wrapping up the final results of the 2016 Municipal Elections at the Results Operations Centre in Pretoria.

Pretoria – The Electoral Commissions Forum of SADC countries (ECF-SADC) says the 2016 Local Government Elections adhered to the legal framework governing elections in South Africa.

Pretoria - With 100% of voting districts declared, the Democratic Alliance (DA) has clinched the Nelson Mandela Bay metro with 46.71% of the votes.

Pretoria - The 2016 Local Government Elections are an indication that South Africa’s democracy is maturing.

Pretoria – Its neck-and-neck for the country’s leading political parties, with the African National Congress (ANC) and the Democratic Alliance (DA) battling it out for the major metros.

Pretoria – It’s the second day of vote counting for the 2016 Local Government Elections and about 90 percent of the votes have been counted.