Councillors from over 200 municipalities are expected to be sworn in within two weeks. They'll also have to undergo training.
Political parties give their reactions after the Independent Electoral Commission released election results on 4 November 2021, in Tshwane. Parties are already approaching each other for coalitions after the commission announced that 66 municipalities were hung. #LGE2021 #Elections2021 #IEC
The Democratic Alliance (DA)’s John Steenhuizen said that it had secured a respectable result to confidently plan for the 2024 national elections.
A record 325 parties contested the 2021 elections, and the decline of the dominant parties has ushered in a new crop of voices.
With the elections declared free and fair, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said that the African National Congress (ANC) still dominated in the country’s 213 municipalities, having achieved a majority in 161 of them.
The official results are expected to be announced by the IEC at 6pm on Thursday.
IEC officials are scanning and auditing the last tranche of ballots for finalisation.
Eyewitness News looks at the progress of the election vote-counting process and how the results are shaping up.
The IEC is briefing the media on the progress of the vote-counting process.
The number of completed municipalities now stands at 111 from a total of 257.
Results at the North West IEC’s Mahikeng operations centre trickled in Tuesday afternoon in after a slow start.
The official opposition, Democratic Alliance will govern in 13 councils.
Mahama, 62, charged that Akufo-Addo, 76, had harnessed the military in a bid to sway the outcome, a claim the government said was false.
Former President Jacob Zuma has told his supporters it’s not true that there is one leader more powerful than the ANC.
The commission on Thursday confirmed that the Statistician-General found there was a negligible risk of multiple voting during last week’s elections.
In a statement, the IEC said that the Statistician-General's report has revealed what it calls negligible risks of double voting.
Minister in the Presidency Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said government spent over R240 million on the last inauguration.
Western Cape Premier-elect Alan Winde aid he was happy with the electoral results despite a drop in support for the Democratic Alliance (DA).
