Election News
IEC pokes holes in ANC decision to take lists to integrity committee 
By: News24Wire 5th April 2019 The African National Congress insists its integrity committee will be the forum that makes final decisions on who should represent the party in... →
Numsa launches political party 'which puts the rights of workers first'
By: News24Wire 5th April 2019 The first workers' party in South Africa has officially been launched and it hopes to garner the working class's votes and bag some seats in... →
Political Party Funding Act: IEC postpones implementation weeks before elections
By: News24Wire 5th April 2019 The number of responses to calls for public comments on the Political Party Funding Act, which forces parties to disclose private funding, has led... →
2019 elections: South Africans have 2 weeks to apply for special vote status
4th April 2019 South African citizens have two weeks to apply to cast a special vote in the 2019 elections. "The window period for applications by voters to cast... →
Corruption, lies, killings, rape... the allegations against some of the ANC's list candidates
By: News24Wire 4th April 2019 The Electoral Commission of South Africa has received objections about 33 of the African National Congress's nominated candidates ahead of the... →
Motlanthe urges ANC to reflect after May 8 polls, warns of much harder future
By: News24Wire 3rd April 2019 Former African National Congress (ANC) deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe says win or lose, he hopes the ANC reflects "very deeply" on how to... →
IEC launches online reporting platform to combat digital disinformation
By: African News Agency 1st April 2019 The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) has partnered with Media Monitoring Africa to launch an online reporting platform aimed at... →
Parties aren't taking big issues seriously in South Africa's election campaign
1st April 2019 Democracy is meant to be a system in which political parties compete to convince the people that they have answers to their most pressing problems.... →
