South Africa

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.

Pretoria – The Department of Home Affairs says it is delighted by the positive response on the part of the South African voters who seized the opportunity to go and collect their Identity Documents.

Pretoria – About 92% of the 63 001 results slips have already been captured in the IEC in the 2016 Local Government Elections.

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.

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.

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.

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%.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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