None of us expected this one: There was a substantial EFF presence in Orania this week, as some voters in the whites-only town did the unfathomable. An an incredible turn of events, the Afrikaner enclave of Orania has seen a number of voters opt for the least likely option on the ballot paper: The EFF..
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Orania,the whites-only town did the unfathomable in 2019 Elections: EFF secure 3.73% of the vote in Orania
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Anc Shrinks In Parliament – From 249 Seats To 230, losings 19 seats in all – Ramaphosa, must be pleased with his poor performance and weakened representation in the National Assembly?
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In the 2014 general elections, the party won a total of 249 seats, meaning in the 2019 elections, it lost 19 seats. The African National Congress (ANC) has bagged 230 seats in the National Assembly following South Africa’s sixth democratic elections. Speaking in Pretoria on Saturday, the Independent Electoral Commission chair Glen Mashinini announced the..
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Outdated devices used in South African elections for years, are not linked to a central online system -Cope’s Deidre Carter says her ID was scanned at four different voting stations
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On Wednesday 8 May South Africans took to the polls in the 2019 elections. Reports are growing of voters describing how easily the ink was removed from thumbs, and cases of people attempting to vote more than once. Cope’s Deidre Carter talks to CapeTalk’s Lester Kiewit about problems she experienced with both ink and the..
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Despite his promise of a “new dawn”, Ramaphosa can’t stop the ANC-regime’s decline, even with a win at the polls
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In recent months there has been conjecture that if South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa wins a suitably large majority of the upcoming national vote, he will be able to achieve two notable outcomes. Firstly, he’ll be able reverse the governing African National Congress’s (ANC’s) slide into populism and factionalism. And he’ll be able to see..
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Freedom Front Plus could claim portion of DA vote among whites
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The Freedom Front Plus is often dismissed as a fringe party of Afrikaner separatists with no meaningful role to play in South African politics. In the run-up to the 2019 elections, however, analysts are beginning to speculate that the FF+ could see quite significant growth at the polls — in particular, from white voters disenchanted..
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