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Bar set high for new administrations

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Pretoria – Acting Director-General at the GCIS, Donald Liphoko, has challenged the incoming administrations and ward councillors that will be working with communities after these municipal elections to go the extra mile to serve the people.

ANC, DA fare strongly in the metros

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Pretoria – With vote counting continuing into the evening, results in the municipal elections show that the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance remain the parties of choice in most of the country’s metros.

Vote counting proceeds steadily

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Pretoria – As the world’s eyes remain firmly fixed on the National Results Operations Centre (ROC) in the country’s capital, government says it is satisfied that vote counting is proceeding well.

ANC in pole position in Free State

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Pretoria – With 88% of the votes having been tallied in the Free State, preliminary results indicate that the African National Congress (ANC) is in the lead with over 62%.

EISA declares elections fair and transparent

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Pretoria – The Electoral Institute for Sustainable Democracy in Africa (EISA) says the 2016 Local Government Elections were conducted in a transparent, fair and credible manner, which is in line with the constitutional and legal framework of elections.

ANC wins Northern Cape

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Pretoria - Vote counting in South Africa’s nine provinces continued in earnest on Thursday with the Northern Cape being among the first to complete the process of counting votes.

IEC on track with vote counting

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Pretoria - The Electoral Commission (IEC) says it is on course to announce the 2016 Local Government Election Results within the specified period.

Early Metro election results

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Pretoria – The results for the 2016 Local Government Election’s highly contested metropolitan areas have started coming in, with about 40% of votes counted nationally.

Voting done: Counting underway

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Pretoria - With voting over in the 2016 Local Government Elections, the spotlight is now on the vote counting process.

Thank you for voting, SA

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Pretoria - Government is pleased with voting in the 2016 Municipal Elections, which proceeded largely well.

Results start to trickle in

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Pretoria – The first lot of votes has been counted in the country’s fifth democratic Municipal Elections, which have been described as the most hotly contested since 1994.

Voting stations close

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Pretoria – Voting stations around the country have closed, marking the end of Election Day.

Free State still hopeful of voter turnout

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Pretoria - With the closing time of voting stations fast approaching, the Free State province remains hopeful that registered voters will cast their votes before polls close at 7pm tonight.

Voting Day nears conclusion

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Pretoria – With just less than an half an hour before voting stations close, the Electoral Commission says it is pleased that no significant incidents of unrest or deliberate disruptions to voting have been reported.

IEC sends condolences to family of deceased volunteer

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Cape Town – The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has sent condolences to the family of a 20-year-old volunteer, who died while working at a voting station in the Western Cape on Wednesday.