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elections 2024

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People who voted at the Cape Town Civic Centre in the CBD queued for hours as they came out in their numbers to vote in the national elections on Wednesday May 29. The ANC came in first with 40.18% votes nationally, followed by the DA with 21.81% and MK with 14.58%.The DA won the Western Cape with 53.41% of the vote, the ANC got 19.79% and the PA came in third with 7.84%.
NATIONAL ELECTIONS

People in the city make their mark

Thabang Madia and Reabetswe Molebatsi from District Six after they cast their votes. Mr Madia said this was his first time voting. “The last time I was in a queue was in 1998…

  • Tamlynne Thompson
1 min read
ELECTION

Police outline plans ahead of elections

Provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Thembisile Patekile outlined the police’s plans for the upcoming general elections at a parade by members of the South African…

  • Bhekizizwe Radebe
2 min read
South Africans will vote in the country’s seventh democratic elections next week, and will, for the first time, be given three ballot papers instead of two.
IEC

Understand the 3 ballot papers before you go to the polls

When South Africans to the polls next week to vote in the country’s seventh democratic elections, they will be given three ballot papers instead of two. The Electoral Commission…

  • OWN Correspondent
4 min read
SOUTH AFRICA

Make your vote count

Maghmood Allie, Plumstead With the media bombardment of representatives of various parties reaching a crescendo and as we prepare ourselves to go to the polls, the poles…

  • Letter to the Editor
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