ELECTIONS 2024 | All you need to know
From breaking news to hard-hitting analysis and multimedia content: we bring you everything you need to know about South Africa's upcoming general elections
LATEST NEWS
Free State remains under ANC rule with 52% of vote
The DA and EFF recorded slight growth in the province
Maimane says ANC, MK Party and EFF are moving to the 'extreme left'
ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe has also blamed tribalism for the MK Party's performance in the elections, ...
DA, Gayton McKenzie’s PA grow in Western Cape as ANC loses support
Support for Gayton McKenzie’s Patriotic Alliance has grown significantly grown in the Western Cape
ANC moves to 36% in Gauteng, MK Party dominates KZN
With 93% of the counting already completed, the ANC leads Gauteng with 36% followed by the DA with 27% and the EFF with ...
MK Party breaks record with more than 2-million votes in first election as ...
With 97.68% of the votes counted, the MK Party was on 14.80%, taking the third spot from the EFF
Vote tallying enters final stages with ANC on 40%
ANC's support has slid over the last decade as South Africans have watched the economy stagnate, unemployment climb and ...
Electoral Court set to hear application by MK Party founder on Monday
The Electoral Court will on Monday hear the application by Jabulani Khumalo against the Electoral Commission’s decision ...
'Celebrate responsibly': KZN police commissioner to election winners
KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt- Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi has urged political leaders to spread a message to their ...
'We have to work with what we are given,' says IEC on election funding
The National Treasury has issued a statement to set the record straight about IEC budget cuts and allocations for the ...
LISTEN | DA to meet multiparty charter partners on way forward
The DA is preparing to meet its multiparty charter partners to chart a way forward on possible coalition governments at ...
ANC cruising in Limpopo with 75% vote lead, MK Party on 1%
While the ANC is struggling to retain a majority in some provinces, in Limpopo it was doing well on the second day of ...
Parties demand explanation for 'mysterious' IEC dashboard and other ...
Several political parties have expressed concern after the IEC results dashboard went blank for almost two hours on ...
‘You’re a legend’: Single EFF vote in Orania causes a stir
One resident who voted for the EFF in Orania, a small Afrikaner enclave in the Northern Cape, has caused a stir on ...
LISTEN | Premature to talk about coalitions, says DA’s Steenhuisen
DA leader John Steenhuisen says it is too early to discuss coalitions.
LISTEN | Bheki Cele: 50 people arrested for disrupting elections
Police minister Bheki Cele says 50 people were arrested from Monday to voting day on Wednesday for allegedly disrupting ...
Cele says 50 people arrested during voting period
Police minister Bheki Cele says about 50 people have been arrested during the voting period this week.
‘People are very afraid of me’: Hlaudi Motsoeneng on ACM’s performance in ...
Leader of the African Content Movement Hlaudi Motsoeneng says people are “very afraid” of him as he reflects on his ...
POLL | Do you think the MK Party can take the EFF’s third spot nationally?
With more than half the votes counted, the spotlight is on the EFF as Jacob Zuma’s MK Party (MKP) is slowly taking over ...
Girl shot in the head in Juju Valley out of ICU, on the mend
A young girl who was shot in the head during a clash between the ANC and EFF in an informal settlement in Seshego, ...
‘No foul play suspected’: IEC on missing ballot box
The Electoral Commission of South Africa does not suspect foul play after it lost a ballot box in uMhlathuze in ...
MK Party blasts Helen Zille and Gwede Mantashe over ‘Zulu vote’
The uMkhonto we Sizwe Party has lambasted DA federal chairperson Helen Zille's remarks that the party's votes primarily ...
Halfway into results: MK Party slowly taking EFF’s third spot nationally
With half the votes counted, Jacob Zuma’s MK Party might be far from its target of a two-thirds majority, but it is ...
ELECTION RESULTS DAY 3 | Free State remains under ANC rule with 52% of vote
What’s happening on the ground.
Ballot box in uMhlatuze goes missing while in transit to local IEC office
The Electoral Commission on Thursday said it had lost a ballot box which went missing in transit from the voting ...
LISTEN | 'We were the underdogs and no-one had faith in us': Duduzile ...
uMkhonto we Sizwe Party's (MKP's) Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla says the party went into the elections as underdogs.
MK party leader Jacob Zuma received loud cheers in the KZN as he made his way to the voting station on May 29 2024.
All sensitive material from the IEC which comes from the warehouses should be transported with police escort. If there is any sensitive material that leaves without us, there should be consequences.KwaZulu-Natal police commissioner Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi
OPINION & ANALYSIS
DR INA GOUWS | Community-based governance: Let your vote help your ...
Community-based governance requires a partnership between civil society, business and government, writes Dr Ina Gouws.
WILLIAM GUMEDE | Why black solidarity voting will not bring development
Unless voters stop voting on the apartheid past, but on the present, South Africa will continue to decline ...
EDITORIAL | Whatever happens, the outcome of our polls will be historic
Let May 29 not be marred by unwarranted bloodshed, sabotage of our electoral processes and undermining of our democracy ...
South Africans go to the polls to choose a new government: what’s ...
Political scientist Dirk Kotze gives an insight into the new electoral law and what it means for the ballot paper and ...
OPINION | Governed by her inferiors? Could never be this Gen Z voter
Voting is a potent civic engagement tool, a way to shape the future and a way to remember those who gave their lives ...
Mayibuye! The 100-year-old slogan that’s stirred up divisions in the ...
By using the symbolic and historical resources of the slogan, the MK Party challenges the struggle credentials of the ...
Hate speech and disinformation in South Africa’s elections: big tech make ...
Without comprehensive access to the data, you’re left in relative darkness about the workings of manipulators, the role ...
TOM EATON | It’s a funny old thing, democracy, but SA can still count its ...
Barring any last-minute disasters, Wednesday's election will be free and fair and a majority of South Africans will ...
MPHUMZI MDEKAZI | Apartheid collaborators, beneficiaries in ANC are the ...
Without reparations for racial injustice, there is no reason to talk about reconciliation, let alone under an ANC-DA ...
EDITORIAL | Nothing is more important than securing the credibility of the ...
Political parties and the IEC must do everything possible to ensure the outcome is believable
JUSTICE MALALA | Whatever happens on May 29, South Africa will be fine
SA may be one of the freest countries in the world — we should celebrate and protect this freedom
PALI LEHOHLA | Fill tummies, not stadiums: beyond the election posters ...
We need not stumble our way into an uncertain post-election reality when a book like ‘Agency, Freedom and Justice’ is ...
PETER BRUCE | Change is nothing to be scared of
OK, so there’s a lot at stake on Wednesday. Either the ANC, after ruling the country for 30 years, gets a parliamentary ...
EDITORIAL | History will be made this week — be sure to be part of it
In this 30th year of democracy, far more is at stake in the elections than usual.
S'THEMBISO MSOMI | Let’s turn down the volume on the alarmist poll talk
There is no shortage of warnings about what a scorned MK Party might do during and after the elections, but it’s a case ...
POPO MOLEFE | A call to all South Africans to uphold the integrity of ...
On Wednesday more than 27-million South Africans, who have registered as voters, will participate in national and ...
WILLIAM GUMEDE | Many voters are hooked on their abusive rulers
The outcome of South Africa’s election will depend on whether large numbers of black voters can break the psychological ...
The real historic occasion
A police general stares down taxi bosses — why can’t we vote for him, asks Hogarth.
TOM EATON | Getting into a tizzy on X about where voters are likely to put ...
Twitter has proved many South Africans still take party politics intensely seriously — maybe a bit too seriously?
PROF SETHULEGO MATEBESI | Clock ticks down to high-stakes elections
This is a new era of unprecedented opposition politics in the democratic space, writes Prof Sethulego Matebesi.
ANALYSIS | MK Party’s approach to UN forum unlikely to succeed
Though it is notionally possible, such cases take years and are not binding
TOYIN AKINNIYI | Technology should enrich civic space in Africa
Technology has featured in elections and will feature more prominently in elections this year around the world, writes ...
LUCKY MATHEBULA | When all is said and done, the voter will decide
The decline of the ANC and DA has been a function of voter turnout
Elections 2024: 10 variables of profound importance
A confluence of factors could redefine the trajectory of the May 29 elections, writes Prof Theo Neethling.
EBRAHIM FAKIR & CHRIS LANDSBERG | A government of national unity would ...
After this year’s watershed elections, governance must be about joint responsibility and accountability, for the ...
On May 29, we cannot allow ourselves to fall silent. This is the day South Africa will go to the polls for the 2024 national and provincial elections, as announced by the presidency on Tuesday, after consultations with the Independent Electoral Commission. It is the day on which every South African 18 and older should make their voice heard.TimesLIVE Premium Editorial
LISTEN ARTICLES
LISTEN | Maimane suggests coalition talks be held publicly
Build One South Africa (BOSA) leader Mmusi Maimane has suggested that coalition talks be open to the public.
LISTEN | ANC facing 'one of its most critical elections' since democracy: ...
ANC first deputy secretary-general Nomvula Mokonyane says the party is facing "one of its most critical elections" ...
LISTEN | ‘MK Party approached me to join them but I am born into the ANC,’ ...
Former minister and ANC veteran Lindiwe Sisulu says she was approached to join the newly formed MK Party.
LISTEN | 'Let's see how strong we are in the election before discussing ...
Thousands of Rise Mzansi supporters gathered at the Ruimsig Stadium in Roodepoort on Sunday for the party’s final rally ...
LISTEN | EFF's Mbuyiseni Ndlozi asks Zuma to quit politics
The EFF’s Mbuyiseni Ndozi says his party’s friend, MK Party leader Jacob Zuma, must go home and rest because he had his ...
LISTEN | Vote, don’t sip: Malema says no drunkards on May 29
EFF leader Julius Malema says voters should not be tempted by alcohol on election day but prioritise the polls.
LISTEN | Western Cape led by 'witches', says Mbalula, 'give ANC a chance'
Western Cape must vote ANC or miss out on ANC-government benefits, says party's secretary-general, Fikile Mbalula.
LISTEN | Let's get criminals out of the ANC: Mbeki has not buried the ...
Former ANC president Thabo Mbeki says he has not put his grievances aside with the party, which “will have to get the ...
LISTEN | Malema changes tune on vote rigging as elections loom
EFF leader Julius Malema claims load-shedding will be implemented when vote counting starts and votes will be stolen.
PODCAST | Zuma is out for revenge and has nothing to lose
Zuma feels wronged by corruption allegations, is out for revenge against his successor and will wreak havoc, we hear in ...
LISTEN | 'Whoever becomes president must not have a bloated cabinet' — ...
Chris Hani's widow Limpho says whoever becomes president after the May 29 general elections should not have a bloated ...
LISTEN | Malema prepared to offer EFF votes to ANC but with one condition ...
With less than two months to go before the May 29 elections, EFF leader Julius Malema says he is prepared to give the ...
Police minister Bheki Cele gave an update on Wednesday morning as to the preparedness of the police during the elections.
President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa said there was no doubt in his mind that the ANC would win a majority in the #elections2024 on May 29 2024.
A voter in Alexandra spoke with TimesLIVE about her reason to vote on May 29 2024 in the national elections.