ELECTION RESULTS DAY 3 WRAP | ‘Those people were never ours — they were Zuma’s’: Malema on MK Party

June 1 2024 - 22:22

Coalition options

June 1 2024 - 22:20

Top five parties

June 1 2024 - 21:16

WATCH | Jacob Zuma causes media frenzy at national ROC

MK Party leader and former president Jacob Zuma caused a media frenzy at the IEC's national results operations centre in Midrand on Saturday. 

June 1 2024 - 20:26

LISTEN | Electing a president, ANC in opposition – what’s next in SA’s coalition government?

Discussions on electing a president and a new government must be completed in the next two weeks.

Democracy Works Foundation chairperson Prof William Gumede says an “outlier” coalition government without the ANC is possible.

June 1 2024 - 20:22

From 53% to 36%: ANC loses confidence of Gauteng voters

Gauteng premier Panyaza Lesufi’s party, the ANC, seems to be losing its grip on the province’s majority vote, as it had garnered just 36.49% of the vote with Wednesday’s election count almost complete.    

The Electoral Commission of South Africa had counted and audited 96.75% of the votes in Gauteng by Saturday evening. The ANC received 1,399,136 votes (36.49% of the total). This was a significant decrease from 2,413,979 votes (53.20% of the total) it won in 2019. 

June 1 2024 - 16:55

‘Those people were never ours — they were Zuma’s’: Malema on the MK Party’s performance

EFF leader Julius Malema says the MK Party was successful in the elections because the people who supported former president Jacob Zuma had no other “home” after he was removed from office and ended up going to his new party.

He said those were voters “borrowed” by the EFF, but now had gone back to their home, the MK Party, and he was happy about that. 

June 1 2024 - 16:07

IEC encourages South Africans to follow the results on its system as results compilation process nears the end

June 1 2024 - 15:47

'We want the home affairs department', says Gayton McKenzie

Patriotic Alliance leader Gayton McKenzie says the party is eyeing the home affairs department so it can deal with illegal foreigners.

Speaking to the media at the IEC's result operation centre in Midrand, McKenzie said the party will receive nine seats in the National Assembly, which will decide who becomes president.

June 1 2024 - 15:34

ANC in the lead in Nelson Mandela Bay with 92% votes captured

With more than 90% of the votes captured in Nelson Mandela Bay from Wednesday’s general elections, the ANC has gained close to a three-percentage-point lead against the DA.

Both parties have continued to stay below the 40% mark.

By 3pm, the ANC had tallied 38.43% of the vote, while the DA obtained 35.75%.

June 1 2024 - 13:11

Free State remains under ANC rule with 52% of vote

The Free State will remain under ANC governance for the next five years with the party winning 52.88% of the vote in the province in Wednesday's elections.

Vote counting and auditing in the province was completed by Saturday morning. The ANC won with 439,707 votes (52.88%). This was a decrease from 2019's 62.94%.

June 1 2024 - 12:54

Maimane says ANC, MK Party and EFF are moving to the 'extreme left'

Build One South Africa leader Mmusi Maimane says this week's elections were difficult due to “ethnic mobilisation”.

The BOSA leader attributed the support and growth of Jacob Zuma's MK Party to “Zulu nationalism”. 

June 1 2024 - 12:10

DA, Gayton McKenzie’s PA grow in Western Cape as ANC loses support

Support for Gayton McKenzie’s Patriotic Alliance has grown significantly in the Western Cape, from attaining only 652 votes in 2019 to getting more than 140,000 votes in this year’s hotly contested elections.

On Saturday morning the Electoral Commission in the Western Cape had counted 97.14% of the votes and the DA was leading with 53.24%. The ANC had 21.18%, down from 31.23 % in 2019.

June 1 2024 - 11:56

LISTEN | Maimane suggests coalition talks be held publicly

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

Speaking to the media at the IEC's results operation centre in Midrand on Saturday, Maimane says coalition talks should be conducted in parliament to allow for transparency.

June 1 2024 - 10:53

ANC moves to 36% in Gauteng, MK Party dominates KZN

While the ANC dominated the results for Limpopo with almost 75% of the vote as vote counting neared an end on Saturday, the MK Party is leading in KwaZulu-Natal with 45.94%.

With 93% of the counting already completed, the ANC leads Gauteng with 36% followed by the DA with 27% and the EFF with 12%.

June 1 2024 - 10:00

Vote tallying enters final stages with ANC on 40%

Since 1994, no new South African party contesting national elections for the first time has attained more than two-million votes but Jacob Zuma's MK Party has broken that record.

Early on Saturday morning the Electoral Commission (IEC) had counted and audited 97.68% of the votes which painted a grim picture for the ANC which was set to lose its majority with its vote tally at 40.11%.

June 1 2024 - 10:00

Vote tallying enters final stages with ANC on 40%

Vote tallying in this week's parliamentary national and provincial elections entered the final stages on Saturday, with the ANC set to fall well short of a majority for the first time in 30 years of democracy.

The ANC has won every previous national election since the historic 1994 vote that ended white minority rule, but over the last decade its support has slid as South Africans have watched the economy stagnate, unemployment climb and infrastructure crumble.

May 31 2024 - 21:54

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 to remove him and record former president Jacob Zuma as president of the uMkhonto we Sizwe Party (MK). 

May 31 2024 - 20:08

'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 2024 elections. 

May 31 2024 - 19:38

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 both national and provincial level the election amid the prospect of a hung parliament and several hung provincial legislatures after Wednesday's elections.

May 31 2024 - 19:16

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 the counting of votes. 

May 31 2024 - 18:20

LISTEN | 'We have played a huge role in bringing the ANC down': Herman Mashaba

ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba says his party has played a huge role in bringing down the ANC. 

May 31 2024 - 18:20

EFF captures predominantly youth vote at Gauteng legislature voting station

Election results from the Gauteng legislature voting station in Johannesburg, where hundreds of youths waited in long queues after midnight to cast their votes, showed the EFF leading on Friday afternoon.

May 31 2024 - 18:16

IEC to declare election results some time this weekend

The Electoral Commission of South Africa says it is pulling out all the stops to finalise the capturing and auditing of results for the national and provincial elections and remains on course “to complete this process imminently”. 

May 31 2024 - 14:47

ANC still below 42%, MK leads EFF as vote counting nears two-thirds mark

May 31 2024 - 14:41

‘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 social media. The “whites-only town”, a Freedom Front Plus stronghold, dominated social media charts on Thursday as 2024 election results started to trickle in at the Electoral Commission of South Africa results operations centre in Midrand. 

A breakdown of election results from Orania, which falls under the Thembelihle municipality, showed the FF Plus received 376 votes, the DA tallied 59 and #HOPE4SA had 34 votes.

A single vote for the EFF in Orania, known for its homogeneous population and preservation of Afrikaner culture, sparked the debate on social media.

May 31 2024 - 14:16

LISTEN | ‘Premature to talk about coalitions’ – DA's Steenhuisen

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

He said they would wait for the counting to conclude before they would decide who to go into a coalition with, but their priority is the 10 parties that formed the Multiparty Charter for South Africa. 

May 31 2024 - 14:05

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.

Cele was speaking at the IEC national results operation centre in Midrand on Friday as vote counting continues nationwide.

May 31 2024 - 14:02

PODCAST | Dear politician, the people have spoken

In this unusual poll, listen to the people's voice about which party they did NOT vote for and why.

May 31 2024 - 13:52

FF Plus not happy with its showing in Eastern Cape

With more than 70% of votes in the Eastern Cape captured, the FF Plus has conceded defeat, saying it could lose its sole seat in the provincial legislature

With 72.47% of votes captured, the FF Plus had 5,214 votes by 12.22pm on Friday..

May 31 2024 - 13:37

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, Polokwane, earlier this month is out of the ICU and well on the mend.

This is according to residents and a family friend who spoke to TimesLIVE days after Juju Valley residents cast their votes, with the rest of the country, in the seventh general elections.

May 31 2024 - 13:34

MKP's Zuma-Sambudla questions DA numbers

May 31 2024 - 13:31

ActionSA's 2024 election results disappoint Steenhuisen

DA leader John Steenhuisen is disappointed by how ActionSA is performing in the 2024 general elections.

Steenhuisen told reporters at the national Results Operations Centre in Midrand he does not believe that ActionSA will deliver on the promise they made to the Moonshot pact.

May 31 2024 - 13:18

‘People are very afraid of me’: Hlaudi Motsoeneng on ACM’s performance

Leader of the African Content Movement (ACM) Hlaudi Motsoeneng says people are “very afraid” of him as he reflects on his party's poor performance in the 2024 general elections so far.

Motsoeneng revealed a mix of disappointment and determination.“People are very afraid of me. You can see they were panicking,” he said.

May 31 2024 - 13:13

DA passes 2-million votes

May 31 2024 - 13:02

#SAElections24 social media analytics

May 31 2024 - 12:57

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 is slowly taking over the red berets' spot with the third highest number of votes so far. 

May 31 2024 - 12:48

Hard choices ahead for Ramaphosa: Madonsela

May 31 2024 - 12:41

MK Party hits 1-million votes

The MK Party just hit a million votes with 61.1% (8.6-million) of the total votes counted. They are now sitting behind the ANC at 3.6-million and the DA on 1.9-million. The EFF is yet to reach 1-million and is currently sitting at 820,000.

May 31 2024 - 12:35

Politicians weigh in as counting continues

May 31 2024 - 12:31

WATCH | MK Party results in KZN 'concerning and surprising': Mokonyane

May 31 2024 - 12:29

WATCH |  'It was a good dream': Cele on MK Party’s two-thirds majority

May 31 2024 - 12:24

‘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 KwaZulu-Natal.

On Thursday the commission announced it lost one ballot box while it was in transit from Matamzana Dube School to the municipal electoral office for storage.

IEC general manager Granville Abrahams told the media the commission did not suspect criminality.

May 31 2024 - 11:51

DA takes small lead in Nelson Mandela Bay as vote capturing continues

With the capturing of votes still in its early stages, the DA has taken the lead in Nelson Mandela Bay, edging ahead of the ANC.

By 10.20am, 88,930 votes had been counted, with the DA receiving 33,725, making up 38.17% of the vote.

May 31 2024 - 11:40

ANC takes early lead in Tshwane

By 11am on Friday, the ANC was leading Tshwane, one of the heavily contested metros in Gauteng, by 193, 779 votes. It was followed by the DA with 150,779 votes.

At the time, 530,345 votes had been completed from the 1,619,402 people who registered to vote in Tshwane.

May 31 2024 - 11:30

WATCH LIVE | HSRC media briefing

The Human Sciences Research Council is presenting preliminary findings of its Election Satisfaction Survey.

May 31 2024 - 11:29

Eastern Cape voting station took more than a day to wrap up

More than 25 hours after many voting stations in the Eastern Cape officially closed their doors to voters, one station in East London remained open as IEC officials were still busy with the counting of votes.

May 31 2024 - 11:25

MK still ahead of EFF, according to latest figures

May 31 2024 - 11:24

Voting device issues blamed for long queues in Nelson Mandela Bay

Technical issues with voter management devices resulted in long waiting times on Wednesday, causing some voters to abandon their right to vote, forcing the IEC to redeploy staff from other polling stations to assist in the affected areas.

Long queues in several wards of Nelson Mandela Bay caused some of the last voting stations to close at 11pm, two hours past the scheduled time.

By Thursday afternoon, three voting stations in the Bay were still counting votes: Phaphani Secondary School in KwaNobuhle, Wells Tent in Wells Estate, and Mount Pleasant Primary School.

May 31 2024 - 11:22

WATCH | Wait for the metros: Maotwe

May 31 2024 - 10:54

EFF 'concerned by IEC incompetence'

May 31 2024 - 10:49

MK Party blasts Helen Zille and Gwede Mantashe over ‘Zulu vote’

The uMkhonto we Sizwe Party has lambasted DA federal chairperson Helen Zille for her remarks that the party's votes primarily come from ethnic Zulu nationals. Zille was speaking to journalists at the national results operation centre at Gallagher Estate in Midrand on Thursday.

May 31 2024 - 10:01

Election results leader board back up after glitch

The Electoral Commission of South Africa has confirmed it experienced interruptions on its results dashboard at results operation centres.

The results board crashed early on Friday at the centres and on the IEC's website for about an hour. This led to fears results may be compromised.

May 31 2024 - 09:40

WATCH | PA strategy head Charles Cilliers reacts to the results so far

May 31 2024 - 09:31

WATCH | IFP will remain official opposition in KZN: Narend Singh

May 31 2024 - 09:20

Eastern Cape ‘not enough to save’ ANC nationally

Despite early results favouring majority rule for the ANC in the Eastern Cape, the ANC in the province is worried this support may not be enough to save the party nationally.

May 31 2024 - 09:13

Leading parties after 55.19% of voting districts counted

May 31 2024 - 08:57

IEC results dashboard back online after technical glitch

May 31 2024 - 08:56

'We accept this mandate with humility' – EFF’s Julius Malema

EFF leader Julius Malema has thanked South Africans who voted for the party, following what appears to be a drop in its electoral fortunes in the 2024 polls.

As at 4.39am, the EFF had received 9.62% votes, with early projections placing it at fourth place nationally, behind former President Jacob Zuma’s MK Party.

May 31 2024 - 08:44

MK vs ANC simply an RET vs Ramaphosa faction split: Van Damme

May 31 2024 - 08:26

Latest CSIR prediction puts ANC at 40.5%

May 31 2024 - 08:23

People are yearning for social justice: Madonsela

May 31 2024 - 08:21

Turnout could be lower than expected: Mbete

May 31 2024 - 08:20

Zuma's party holds on to its strong lead in KZN

For the ANC to get 50% of the votes in KwaZulu-Natal, it would need to get the entire eThekwini vote.

This is according to director of Rivonia Circle, Tessa Dooms, who spoke on SowetanLIVE broadcast from the the results centre in Midrand, Johannesburg.

May 31 2024 - 08:18

MK says list does not guarantee a seat in the National Assembly

uMkhonto weSizwe Party secretary-general Sihle Ngubane says the party is yet to decide who from its candidate list would represent them in parliament should they get seats.

The party has been leading in KwaZulu-Natal since early on Thursday as voting results trickled in.

May 31 2024 - 08:16

High voter turnout points to fed-up citizens

The high voter turnout that seems to have caught everyone by surprise indicates that South Africans are fed up and want to have their say in who should lead them.

Political analysts and observers shared these sentiments yesterday as it became evident from long voting queues during Wednesday's poll that voter turnout was likely to surpass previous elections. According to the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC)  the last ballot was cast in the early hours of yesterday at a voting station in Arcadia, Pretoria.

Images and videos of snaking queues across the country were shared on social media platforms long after the 9pm closing time of voting stations.

May 31 2024 - 08:11

Halfway into results: MK Party slowly taking EFF’s third spot nationally

With half the votes counted, Jacob Zuma’s MK Party (MKP) might be far from its target of a two-thirds majority, but it is slowly taking over the EFF’s spot with the third highest number of votes. 

Early on Friday morning the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) had counted and audited 51.92% of the votes and the ANC was leading with 42.34%.

The DA trailed behind at 23.39% and the MKP at 10.77%, taking the EFF’s third spot.

May 31 2024 - 08:06

Jury still out on voter turnout in Nelson Mandela Bay

Political parties rarely find common ground, and it was evident in Nelson Mandela Bay where they clashed over whether the voter turnout for the 2024 general elections was low or high.

Though some voting stations experienced long queues with wait times of up to six hours, many in Motherwell, New Brighton and Kwazakhele remained fairly quiet throughout the day.

May 31 2024 - 08:04

‘I’m worried’ — Mabuyane

As results were trickling in on Thursday after a watershed 2024 general election, the ANC was on course to potentially lose its hold on the government for the first time in 30 years.

In a shocking admission, ANC Eastern Cape leader Oscar Mabuyane said his party could lose its majority in parliament due to the rise of the MK Party and declining support in Gauteng

May 31 2024 - 08:02

Despite frustrating delays, youth declare: '2024 is our 1994!'

Some voters have voiced their frustration and disappointment after enduring long hours of waiting because of persistent system failures at some polling stations.Despite the IEC's preparations for the national and provincial elections, technical glitches on Wednesday delayed voting at several stations.

Tshepo Maphepha, who waited about eight hours before casting his vote at the Capricorn municipality, shared his experience with TimesLIVE.

May 31 2024 - 07:56

IEC issues apology for technical problems

May 31 2024 - 07:32

IEC results dashboard down

The Electoral Commission of South Africa's dashboard at the results centre in Gauteng has crashed. Hopefully it will be back up soon.

May 31 2024 - 06:55

WATCH LIVE | 2024 election results

Counting continues at voting stations on Friday after South Africans made their party choices on Wednesday.

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