Voting gets underway
Pretoria – Voting stations across the country have opened and the long-awaited 2014 general elections are underway.
Pretoria – Voting stations across the country have opened and the long-awaited 2014 general elections are underway.
Pretoria – As the sun rises this chilly Wednesday morning, many South Africans are already out and about, heading to the polls, to exercise their democratic right to elect the country’s fifth government.
Pretoria - The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) says it is in “pretty good shape, ready and prepared” for Election Day which kicks off at voting stations across the country tomorrow morning.
Pretoria – With less than 20 hours to go before South Africans head to the polls in the country’s fifth democratic elections, SAnews explains what to expect at voting stations.
Pretoria – The Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini has called on the international community, the African Union and the Nigerian government to do whatever it can to liberate the 230 school girls kidnapped in Nigeria.
Pretoria - Preparations for the country’s fifth democratic elections are firmly in place with the Free State and the Eastern Cape ready for the thousands of South Africans who are expected to cast their votes.
Pretoria - The Department of Basic Education has noted the court ruling made today at the North Gauteng High Court on the delivery of textbooks in Limpopo.
Pretoria - Political parties registered to contest tomorrow’s general election have between now and midnight to stretch their final electioneering.
Pretoria - The Mpumalanga Department of Education has reached an 80.1% pass mark following the release of the results of the supplementary examinations by Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga.
Pretoria – Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Lechesa Tsenoli has called on South Africans to turn out in their numbers for tomorrow’s general election.
Johannesburg - Former president Thabo Mbeki was among the South Africans who cast their special votes, on Tuesday, at his Johannesburg home.
Johannesburg – Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane has joined many other South Africans in casting their special votes.
Standing on the lawn of the Union Buildings on 27 April 2014, President Jacob Zuma proudly said it had been 20 years since the dawn of freedom and democracy. As he addressed the crowd on the occasion of this year’s Freedom Day celebrations, thoughts inevitably turned to the momentous happenings of 27 April 1994, when South Africans came out in their millions, forming long queues in villages, townships and suburbs, to cast their votes for the first time.
Pretoria - As millions of voters around the country will queue to cast their votes on Wednesday, the South African Weather Service has predicted fine weather conditions for the day.
Pretoria - President Jacob Zuma will send three ministers to represent South Africa at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa Summit, the Presidency said on Monday.