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South Africa: Malema to Meet ANC As Coalition Talks Drag On
News24Wire, 9 August 2016
EFF leader Julius Malema was summoned to a meeting with the ANC leadership late on Tuesday as possible municipal coalition deals are slowly taking shape. Read more »
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South Africa: Cosatu Northern Cape Statement On the Local Government Elections Outcomes
COSATU, 8 August 2016
The Congress of South African Trade Unions in the Northern Cape congratulates the ANC on the outstanding performance in the recent local government elections. This has indeed been… Read more »
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South Africa: Message to White Voters - Keep Calm ... and Shut Up!
The Conversation Africa, 9 August 2016
We the South African voters have spoken in the local government election, and we said many different things. Let's give votes and cities (in part or whole) to the main opposition… Read more »
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South Africa: The DA Is Not an Alternative to the ANC
The Daily Vox, 11 August 2016
Wandile Ngcaweni feels the DA is the vanguard of white privilege in South Africa, and is not a viable alternative to the ANC. Read more »
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Africa: 2016 Election Result a Tipping Point for South Africa
DA, 6 August 2016
Note to Editors: These were the remarks made by the Leader of the Democratic Alliance, Mmusi Maimane, at a press conference today at the IEC's Results Operations Centre ("The… Read more »
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South Africa: 2016 Elections - How It All Unfolded
SAnews.gov.za, 6 August 2016
As the Electoral Commission prepares to make the final announcement of results for the 2016 Municipal Elections, SAnews looks at the week that was, since South Africans went out in… Read more »
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South Africa: Ruling ANC Defeated in Pretoria
DW, 6 August 2016
The opposition Democratic Alliance has beaten the ruling ANC in the capital's metropolitan area. South Africa's electors have voted for "real and positive change," said the party's… Read more »
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South Africa: 'I Am a 40-Year-Old Woman and Embarrassed to Have Voted for the DA Today'
The Daily Vox, 4 August 2016
She did it again. Read more »
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South Africa: DA Claims Victory Over ANC in Tshwane
News24Wire, 5 August 2016
Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane on Friday announced that the party had claimed victory in Tshwane, the country's capital, beating the African National Congress. Read more »
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South Africa: Maimane 'Excited', As Early Results Show DA Growth
News24Wire, 4 August 2016
DA leader Mmusi Maimane swept into the IEC's national results centre on Thursday, saying he felt "buoyed" by early election results which showed the party had made gains in certain… Read more »
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South Africa: Dabbing Has Fallen - Malema On ANC's Poor Elections Showing
News24Wire, 5 August 2016
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema rattled off a string of conditions for coalitions with other political parties on Friday after the red berets emerged as kingmakers… Read more »
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Africa: Here Is What the World Is Saying About South Africa's Local Election Results
The Daily Vox, 6 August 2016
The ANC, still the most important, most relevant, most iconic of political parties in the South Africa, has been served humble pie at this election. Read more »
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South Africa: DA Has Identified Parties It Wants in Nelson Mandela Bay Coalition - Trollip
News24Wire, 5 August 2016
DA mayoral candidate Athol Trollip has already identified political parties that he wants to charm into a coalition, he said on Friday. Read more »
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South Africa: 13 Percent of the Vote Still to Go in Johannesburg
News24Wire, 6 August 2016
With 87% of the vote captured in Johannesburg by Saturday morning, the difference between the support for the DA and ANC is mere decimal points. Read more »
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South Africa: Election Results - All Eyes On Gauteng's Metros
SAnews.gov.za, 6 August 2016
All eyes are on Gauteng's metropolitan municipalities -Tshwane, Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni - as vote counting enters day three. Read more »
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South Africa: With Whom Should We Form Coalition? - EFF Asks Followers
News24Wire, 5 August 2016
Amid the talks of coalitions, the EFF on Friday asked its supporters on Twitter to vote on which party, if any, it should form a partnership with. Read more »
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South Africa: Ruling Party Faces Worst Election Loss in 20 Years
Al Jazeera, 5 August 2016
South Africa's ruling party appears to be headed for its biggest electoral blow since it won power at the end of apartheid 22 years ago, with 95 percent of votes counted in local… Read more »
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South Africa: ANC Falls Below 50 Percent in Mogale City
News24Wire, 5 August 2016
The ANC has dipped under the 50% mark for the first time in Gauteng's Mogale City, according to the IEC's final vote count for the area released on Friday. Read more »
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South Africa: Never Say Never, Ramaphosa Tells FF Plus MP
News24Wire, 5 August 2016
FF Plus MP Pieter Groenewald told ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa that a coalition between the two parties would not work because the ANC was a "scorpion". Read more »
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South Africa: Weather Vs Madiba in Tight Nama Khoi Voting Race
News24Wire, 5 August 2016
The African National Congress says extremely cold weather led to fewer of their voters making it to the polls in the Nama Khoi municipality, while the Democratic Alliance countered… Read more »
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South Africa: 6 Key Voting Districts in the Battle for Tshwane
News24Wire, 5 August 2016
Six voting districts in Tshwane could be key to determining whether the African National Congress or Democratic Alliance will be the biggest party in the metropolitan area, says… Read more »
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South Africa: I Voted ANC to Honour Collins Chabane - Brother
News24Wire, 5 August 2016
Collins Chabane's brother voted for the African National Congress to honour the late Cabinet minister, he said on Friday. Read more »
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South Africa: Many More Vote ANC in 2016 Than Ever Before
ANC, 5 August 2016
As results from municipal elections continue to come in to the IEC National Results Center in Pretoria, an unprecedented 14 million South Africans have cast their ballots in favour… Read more »
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South Africa: The Guptas Also Voted - in True Gupta Style
News24Wire, 5 August 2016
The Gupta family also voted on Wednesday - in typical Gupta style, arriving in three luxury vehicles with three bodyguards in tow at the voting station in Saxonwold. Read more »
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South Africa: ANC Will Rise to the Top Again - Ramaphosa
News24Wire, 5 August 2016
The ANC "will be rising to the top again", even though people thought it was on its knees, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday. Read more »
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South Africa: Maimane Confident DA Will Lead NMB
Daily Maverick, 4 August 2016
The votes have been counted and 77.8% had been captured by 11am today. Visiting the IEC results centre, DA leader Mmusi Maimane on Thursday was confident, claiming Nelson Mandela… Read more »
South Africa's Local Election Results Reveal Many Surprises
The Democratic Alliance, the country's official opposition, has beaten the ruling African National Congress in some areas, while the Inkatha Freedom Party in Kwazulu-Natal makes a comeback and new political party the Economic Freedom Fighters continue to make inroads.
InFocus
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There's a still a long way to go to the final results for the country's fifth democratic municipal elections. Read more »
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Voting for the 2016 local government elections is off to a smooth start across most of the country. Read more »
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Undecided voters and disenfranchised youth may prove to be the decisive factors in the outcome of the 2016 local government elections, according to The Conversation and the Daily ... Read more »
