ELECTIONS 2024 | All you need to know

The Electoral Commission briefs the media on the progress of the election results capturing process.

The DA and EFF recorded slight growth in the province

ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe has also blamed tribalism for the MK Party's performance in the elections, ...

Support for Gayton McKenzie’s Patriotic Alliance has grown significantly grown in the Western Cape

With 93% of the counting already completed, the ANC leads Gauteng with 36% followed by the DA with 27% and the EFF with ...

With 97.68% of the votes counted, the MK Party was on 14.80%, taking the third spot from the EFF

ANC's support has slid over the last decade as South Africans have watched the economy stagnate, unemployment climb and ...

The Electoral Court will on Monday hear the application by Jabulani Khumalo against the Electoral Commission’s decision ...

KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt- Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has urged political leaders to spread a message to their ...

The National Treasury has issued a statement to set the record straight about IEC budget cuts and allocations for the ...

The DA is preparing to meet its multiparty charter partners to chart a way forward on possible coalition governments at ...

While the ANC is struggling to retain a majority in some provinces, in Limpopo it was doing well on the second day of ...

Several political parties have expressed concern after the IEC results dashboard went blank for almost two hours on ...

One resident who voted for the EFF in Orania, a small Afrikaner enclave in the Northern Cape, has caused a stir on ...

DA leader John Steenhuisen says it is too early to discuss coalitions.

Police minister Bheki Cele says 50 people were arrested from Monday to voting day on Wednesday for allegedly disrupting ...

Police minister Bheki Cele says about 50 people have been arrested during the voting period this week.

Leader of the African Content Movement Hlaudi Motsoeneng says people are “very afraid” of him as he reflects on his ...

With more than half the votes counted, the spotlight is on the EFF as Jacob Zuma’s MK Party (MKP) is slowly taking over ...

A young girl who was shot in the head during a clash between the ANC and EFF in an informal settlement in Seshego, ...

The Electoral Commission of South Africa does not suspect foul play after it lost a ballot box in uMhlathuze in ...

The uMkhonto we Sizwe Party has lambasted DA federal chairperson Helen Zille's remarks that the party's votes primarily ...

With half the votes counted, Jacob Zuma’s MK Party might be far from its target of a two-thirds majority, but it is ...

What’s happening on the ground.

The Electoral Commission on Thursday said it had lost a ballot box which went missing in transit from the voting ...

Community-based governance requires a partnership between civil society, business and government, writes Dr Ina Gouws.

Unless voters stop voting on the apartheid past, but on the present, South Africa will continue to decline ...

Let May 29 not be marred by unwarranted bloodshed, sabotage of our electoral processes and undermining of our democracy ...

Political scientist Dirk Kotze gives an insight into the new electoral law and what it means for the ballot paper and ...

Voting is a potent civic engagement tool, a way to shape the future and a way to remember those who gave their lives ...

By using the symbolic and historical resources of the slogan, the MK Party challenges the struggle credentials of the ...

Without comprehensive access to the data, you’re left in relative darkness about the workings of manipulators, the role ...

Barring any last-minute disasters, Wednesday's election will be free and fair and a majority of South Africans will ...

Without reparations for racial injustice, there is no reason to talk about reconciliation, let alone under an ANC-DA ...

Political parties and the IEC must do everything possible to ensure the outcome is believable

SA may be one of the freest countries in the world — we should celebrate and protect this freedom

We need not stumble our way into an uncertain post-election reality when a book like ‘Agency, Freedom and Justice’ is ...

OK, so there’s a lot at stake on Wednesday. Either the ANC, after ruling the country for 30 years, gets a parliamentary ...

In this 30th year of democracy, far more is at stake in the elections than usual.

There is no shortage of warnings about what a scorned MK Party might do during and after the elections, but it’s a case ...

On Wednesday more than 27-million South Africans, who have registered as voters, will participate in national and ...

The outcome of South Africa’s election will depend on whether large numbers of black voters can break the psychological ...

A police general stares down taxi bosses — why can’t we vote for him, asks Hogarth.

Twitter has proved many South Africans still take party politics intensely seriously — maybe a bit too seriously?

This is a new era of unprecedented opposition politics in the democratic space, writes Prof Sethulego Matebesi.

Though it is notionally possible, such cases take years and are not binding

Technology has featured in elections and will feature more prominently in elections this year around the world, writes ...

The decline of the ANC and DA has been a function of voter turnout

A confluence of factors could redefine the trajectory of the May 29 elections, writes Prof Theo Neethling.

After this year’s watershed elections, governance must be about joint responsibility and accountability, for the ...

Build One South Africa (BOSA) leader Mmusi Maimane has suggested that coalition talks be open to the public.

ANC first deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane says the party is facing "one of its most critical elections" ...

Former minister and ANC veteran Lindiwe Sisulu says she was approached to join the newly formed MK Party.

Thousands of Rise Mzansi supporters gathered at the Ruimsig Stadium in Roodepoort on Sunday for the party’s final rally ...

The EFF’s Mbuyiseni Ndozi says his party’s friend, MK Party leader Jacob Zuma, must go home and rest because he had his ...

EFF leader Julius Malema says voters should not be tempted by alcohol on election day but prioritise the polls.

Western Cape must vote ANC or miss out on ANC-government benefits, says party's secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula.

Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki says he has not put his grievances aside with the party, which “will have to get the ...

EFF leader Julius Malema claims load-shedding will be implemented when vote counting starts and votes will be stolen.

Zuma feels wronged by corruption allegations, is out for revenge against his successor and will wreak havoc, we hear in ...

Chris Hani's widow Limpho says whoever becomes president after the May 29 general elections should not have a bloated ...

With less than two months to go before the May 29 elections, EFF leader Julius Malema says he is prepared to give the ...