South Africa

Pretoria – Almost 95% of the votes have been counted in the 2014 general election.

Pretoria – The national Results Operations Centre (ROC) was a hive of activity when President Jacob Zuma, the leader of the African National Congress (ANC), did a walkabout through the elections nerve centre on Thursday night.

Pretoria – Results for 70% the country’s voting districts are now in, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) announced on Thursday evening.

Pretoria – By lunchtime on Thursday – after the IEC had announced that half of all votes had been counted – analysts and political party leaders were still keeping their cards close to their chest on how they thought their parties would fare once the last votes get counted.

Pretoria – As preliminary election results show a landslide victory for the Democratic Alliance (DA) in the Western Cape, its rivals the ANC, has conceded defeat in that province, with the party saying, it could have done more to win the hotly contested province.

Pretoria - A total of 47 809 green bar-coded IDs were issued during the voter registration weekends in November 2013 and February 2014, says the Department of Home Affairs.

Pretoria - Election-centred police operations in Limpopo, which ensured a safe voting environment for communities, have resulted in the arrest of five armed robbers who have been on the police’s radar for the past few months.

Pretoria - With 7.55 million votes having been counted so far, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on Thursday afternoon said it was happy with the rate of vote capture.

Pretoria - The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) says they have recorded various incidents in different voting areas, which police are investigating.

Pretoria - North West Premier Thandi Modise has applauded voters who came out in their numbers to exercise their democratic right in the national and provincial elections held on Wednesday.

Pretoria – As the results of the 2014 General Elections continue to trickle in at the National Results Operating Centre (ROC) in Pretoria, the provincial results centres are optimistic that all the votes would be captured and audited by the end of the day.

Pretoria - Counting in the national and provincial elections has passed the halfway mark on the first day of counting.

Pretoria – Government has thanked South Africans for casting their votes on Wednesday in what it has described as a successful 2014 General Election.

Pretoria – Just weeks before South Africans were to cast their votes, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) was faced with a potential crisis when its chairperson Pansy Tlakula was embroiled in a tender controversy which ended up in court.

Pretoria – The Congress of the People and IFP are likely to be the biggest losers in the 2014 General Election and Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters may become the official opposition in few of the country’s provinces, a political analyst is predicting.