Pretoria-The final results for 2014 general elections were announced in Pretoria on Saturday night.
Below is a list of the number of seats each political party won in the National Assembly:
– APC 1
– PAC of Azania 1
– Agang SA 2
– ACDP 3
– AIC 3
– Cope 3
– UDM 4
– FF Plus 4
– NFP 6
– IFP 10
– EFF 25
– DA 89
– ANC 249
– SAPA
Pretoria – The fifth democratic elections of South Africa proceeded smoothly and peacefully, Electoral Commission deputy chairperson Terry Tselane said on Saturday.
He said at the IEC results operations centre in Pretoria: “These elections were not perfect – no election is.”
“We will see where mistakes were made and how best to prevent those in the future.
“This election has showed that we have much to be proud of as a nation,” he said.
He said voters waited on average for 16 minutes in the queues before voting.
About 97% of voters expressed satisfaction with how the elections proceeded on election day on Wednesday, he said.
He said history would show that this year’s elections were the best run the country ever had.
– SAPA
Johannesburg – Thousands of African National Congress supporters were on Saturday night singing and dancing in the Johannesburg CBD to celebrate the party’s victory in the 2014 election.
Fists and posters were held aloft as musicians entertained the crowd on stage. Some supporters climbed on top of walls to get a better view of the stage and two big screens on either side.
Young children could be seen on their parents’ shoulders as the festivities continued.
ANC president Jacob Zuma was expected to address the crowd later.
– SAPA
Speaking to News24, EFF leader Julius Malema said the priority for Limpopo and the North West (where the EFF will serve as official opposition) is the expropriation of land without compensation.
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Pretoria – Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema visited the IEC’s national results operations centre in Pretoria on Saturday in a jubilant and defiant mood.
“We are very happy, we may not have the means and the capacity to celebrate, but we do appreciate, we are humbled by the support we have received,” Malema told News24.
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Pretoria – The chief electoral officer of the IEC says he believes everything is under control and the organisation is ready for the final results presentation at 18:00 on Saturday.
Speaking to News24 earlier on Saturday, Mosotho Moepya said he was confident that everything had gone according to plan until now, and there were only minor issues still to attend to.
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By Obakeng Maje
Taung-A 59 year-old man was found dead in Buxton village, near Taung,North West police said.
Captain Pelonomi Makau said a 59 year-old man was found with head injuries on Saturday morning at Buxton village, near Taung.
“Otsile Johannes Mabogola was found dead with head injuries on Saturday morning. Police cannot confirm wether he was bludgeoned to death or was killed by a hit and run car” Makau said.
According to our source, Mabogola was on his way home after they spent time at a local tavern with friends. The allegedly parted ways at around 02:00am to their respectful homes.
A man was allegedly heard screaming and his friend, Ledwaba thought he is calling for another friend called Diboki.
Police said the cause of his death will be known after postmortem.
Mabogola’s body was allegedly found by a woman called Oumaki and police were called.
Some suspect Mabogola was hit by a runaway car as some of the residents allegedly saw a speeding golf passed-by after Mabogola screamed.
Taung police launched a murder case and the result amid Mabogola’s death will be known soon.-TDN
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Pretoria – Now that the 2014 national and provincial election campaigns are over, the focus will inevitably shift to the victor, the ANC, and its internal policies, according to political analyst Steven Friedman.
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Pretoria – Former president Nelson Mandela would have been happy with the 2014 elections, and would have encouraged voters to give the ANC another chance, believes Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane.
“He would have voted for the ANC, and he would have encouraged everybody to give the ANC another chance,” she told News24.
Mokonyane was sitting next to Mandela’s former wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, at the IEC’s national results operations centre in Pretoria.
Madikizela-Mandela declined interviews.
Mokonyane added that she was very happy with the ANC’s result in Gauteng.
“Everybody thought that the ANC would lose, other people came very determined that they would take over.
“We could have done better but the fact of the matter is that everybody who assumed that the ANC would not be in power has been proven wrong. But the ANC must go back and make do a proper assessment as to how did we perform, and how best we can take our percentage higher.”
Mokonyane added that the ANC was not worried about opposition parties, and its election campaign focused on what would be best for its communities rather than other parties.
“We’re not worried about the EFF, we’re worried about unemployment, poverty and inequality,” she said.
The ANC won 11.4m votes, or 62.2% of votes in the national election, and 54.92% of the vote in Gauteng. The party faced a strong challenge from the DA, which won 28.52% of the vote in the province, while the EFF received 10.26% of votes.-Sapa
Polokwane – The IEC has ordered a vote recount on Friday at a Musina polling station in Limpopo after results showed that the EFF and the DA each failed to get a single vote on the national ballot.
Oddly, the same results indicated that 151 and 83 provincial ballots from that polling station went to the two parties respectively.
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