There will be no surprises under the new ANC government, its president and state president in-waiting Jacob Zuma said after the IEC announced the 2009 election results, writes Natasha Marrian, Denise Williams and Kenichi Serino. Read the rest of this entry »
Curious to see how the voting went in your district of the Eastern Cape? Want to see whether your party has done better of worse than 2004? Well, this online graphic by Dispatch graphic designer Rudi Louw should provide the answers you are looking for. (Click on the map icon (l) to activate the online graphic).
Herewith the latest national results in South Africa’s fourth democratic elections as they stood at 5pm on Friday afternoon: Read the rest of this entry »
Herewith the latest national results in South Africa’s fourth democratic elections as they stood at 4pm on Friday afternoon: Read the rest of this entry »
As the media scramble around on Friday to speak to the learned analysts to try and make sense of the results following South Africa’s 2009 National and Provincial elections, we are looking at following a bit of a different approach. WHAT DO YOU, OUR LOYAL READERS THINK? Read the rest of this entry »
Ballot counting in South Africa’s fourth democratic election was to be completed by midday on Friday, but the ANC has already feted a landslide win propelling party leader Jacob Zuma into the presidency, writes Emsie Ferreira. Read the rest of this entry »
The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) was hoping to reach and possibly exceed its target of 80 percent in voter turnout in the Eastern Cape, writes Mayibongwe Maqhina from the “nerve centre” in East London. Read the rest of this entry »
With results still slowly trickling in by Thursday afternoon, the bone-tired media contingent at the IEC nerve centre at East London’s Regent Hotel was delighted when two of the main players in the Eastern Cape election story served up a bit of light entertainment. Dispatchonline news editor Jan Hennop caught the ANC’s provincial secretary Pemmy Majodina and Cope supremo Siphatho Handi in a jocular mood… (pics shot on Nokia 6110 Navigator).