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Listed: The grievances of smaller parties as they threaten to take IEC to court
Twenty-seven parties served the commission with a lawyer’s letter giving it until Saturday morning to respond to their demands.
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FF Plus attributes 2019 elections success to 'hard work & rebranding'
EWN's editor-in-chief Mahlatse Mahlase speaks to the Freedom Front Plus' national spokesperson Wouter Wessels. The party says it began a long-term plan in 2013 when it repositioned and rebranded itself.
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Andile Mngxitama: 'Our votes were stolen'
BLF leader Andile Mngxitama visited the IEC national results operations centre on 10 May 2019. He said the only reason the party had failed to meet the required number of votes to make it into Parliament was because BLF votes were stolen.
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Was Ramaphosa the ANC's saving grace? Ace Magashule explains
EWN's Clement Manyathela interviewed ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule about his feud with ANC elections head Fikile Mbalula over how much credit for the ANC's apparent election victory, if any, is due to party president Cyril Rmaphosa.
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Western Cape completes vote counting with DA in lead
The Democratic Alliance leads with 55.45% of the vote while the African National Congress has 28.64% and the EFF 4.04%.
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Aggrieved smaller parties serve IEC with letter calling for independent probe
The political parties say they will approach the Electoral Court should the IEC not agree to an independent audit and refrain from declaring the election results.
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In the House: Here’s how parliamentary seats are allocated to political parties
The National Assembly has 400 seats, which are divided between parties according the proportion of the votes they get.
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Almost there: ANC still leads with less than 10% of votes left to count
The ANC is sitting at 57.66% while the DA is sitting at 20.74% and the EFF at 10.45% with 92.57% of the votes counted.
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DA divisions over Maimane’s future resurface
While DA leader Mmusi Maimane told reporters that he would continue to lead the party as it hoped to recoup support in its former strongholds, other leaders in the party were not that certain.
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Smaller parties question integrity of 2019 elections
Small parties, who feel that there has been negligence by the IEC in conducting free and fair elections, publicly objected to the results of the 2019 elections at the IEC results operations centre in Pretoria.
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Politics Sphithiphithi: What will happen to Maimane? Live with the DA's Trollip
The DA's federal executive council chair says he doesn't know who in the DA want Mmusi Maimane to no longer lead the party, which has seen stagnated support this elections.
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More than 30 parties walk out of IEC meeting over voting irregularities
The group has vowed to bring their members to the results operation centre in Tshwane to protest until their demands are heard.
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De Lille grateful for all Good support after bitter divorce from DA
The party has also won enough national votes for at least one seat in Parliament.
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FF+ accuses DA of using scare tactics in Western Cape
Freedom Front Plus premier candidate for the Western Cape Peter Marais has accused the Democratic Alliance of using fear tactics.
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WATCH: WC IEC briefs media on vote counting progress
The IEC in the Western Cape briefed the media on the vote counting process in the province.
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IFP confirms member shot dead at KZN polling station
IFP national treasurer and elections head Narend Singh has confirmed the killing of the party member on 8 May 2019.
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OPINION: Ramaphosa saves the ANC’s bacon. But this could be its last chance
Some have argued that were the ANC to win 60% or more in this election, it would have given the party a blank cheque for further larceny.
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Smaller parties weigh options as vote counting draws to a close
The IEC is expected to finalise election results during the course of Friday.
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Over 12 million votes tallied and captured by IEC across SA
More than 17,000 voting districts have captured their results, however, more than 5,000 still need to do so.
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Long week, lack of sleep worth it, say IEC volunteers
Several IEC officials have told EWN the lack of sleep has been worth it because they got to be part of a historic event.
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Selfe: Inevitable DA would lose some support to FF Plus
The Democratic Alliance (DA) says it was inevitable some of its supporters would leave the party for the Freedom Front Plus
