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The only people who are honest about relationships are the politicians at the podium, but at least we can vote them out of office and scroll past this show's bullshit. It doesn't deserve any more attention on this page. Good TV takes you places; bad TV doesn't. Ugly TV is more repulsive than ill-fitting pants. Some shows are too tight, too overproduced, and never fit right. Others just never zip up, no matter how hard you try. Ultimatum South Africa Netflix's “The Best of the World” is one such show, which somehow caused a social media frenzy this week when…
Reading Time: 2 MinutesThe Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) said it had no intention of forming a coalition with any other party at this time. The party's leader, Berenkosini Hlabisa, was addressing the media at the National Results Operations Centre in Midrand on Saturday, adding that the party would take part in the Multi-Party Constitution (MPC) talks later in the evening. “We are not desperately trying to form a coalition government for the sake of a coalition government,” Hlabisa said. He indicated the IFP's national executive committee would also meet on Sunday to review the results and set a course for…
Reading Time: 3 MinutesAfrican Congress for Transformation (ACT) leader and former ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule said he had evidence and proof that the vote may have been rigged. He reiterated that if the South African Electoral Commission (IEC) were to agree to a recount, things would get complicated. Magashule added that if political parties were to raise concerns about the IEC, it was not to undermine the commission's credibility and integrity. he, A.B.C. At the National Results Centre in Midland. “These are serious discrepancies and irregularities and in simple terms we can call it irregularities because we have given the…
Reading Time: 2 MinutesThe Gauteng Electoral Commission (IEC) said the counting of results is nearly complete at the Provincial Results Processing Centre in Alberton, with 99 per cent of votes having been counted so far. The African National Congress (ANC) is still below 40% on 34.2%, followed by the Democratic Alliance (DA) on 27.7% and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on 12.8%. The Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) party came in fourth with the support of 9.6% of voters. IEC Gauteng spokesperson Moses Pitso says the count is almost complete. “Today is the final day. We're 99 percent done collecting the ballots.…
The ANC is expected to lose complete control in some provinces in the 2024 elections. (Alfonso Nkunjana/News24) With 97.84% of the votes counted, the ANC had won just over 40% of the national vote. Several new parties are likely to win seats in parliament. Everything you need to know about the 2024 general election on News24 Election Hub.It's pretty much official: At around 10am, he had 97.84% of the vote, giving the ANC 40.12% of the national vote.The DA has 21.74% of the vote, but corrupt former president Jacob Zuma's Mkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) is set to supplant the EFF…
Celebration: The Democratic Alliance comfortably retained its majority in the Western Cape. (Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty Images) CSenior electoral officials confirmed on Saturday they were contesting the results of elections in the Western Cape, where the nearly completed vote count shows the Democratic Alliance will hold onto a comfortable majority, after being defeated by 20 parties and independent candidates. The challenges under Section 55 of the Election Act were filed collectively late on Friday, citing discrepancies in the handling of votes in several districts in the state, which one observer likened to a “class action lawsuit.” The DA passed the two…
Supporters of the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party gather outside the polling station at Ntlwane Primary School in the rural town of Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal, on May 29, 2024. (Photo by Per Anders Pettersson/Getty Images) The Umkhonto we Sizwe party is calling for a recount of votes cast in Wednesday's election, alleging electoral fraud to prevent it from winning a majority in KwaZulu-Natal. The party is also calling for a national and Western Cape recount and has warned that it will not accept the results unless its concerns are resolved by the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC). This was despite…
Total Energies, the French oil giant that left a legacy of destruction on the European continent, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. (Ernest Ankomah/Bloomberg via Getty Images) TThis year OtalEnergies, the French oil giant that left a legacy of destruction on the European continent, celebrates its 100th anniversary – 100 years of making profits, destroying the environment and damaging people's lives, to put it bluntly. The company's damage has been widespread, severe and well documented. In 1956, TotalEnergies entered Africa, exploiting its natural resources along the way. The company's efforts to extract oil and gas have wreaked havoc on communities,…
Reading Time: 2 MinutesThe South African Electoral Commission (IEC) is nearing completion of the vote counting operation. With more than 96% of the national vote now counted, the ANC remains in the lead with just over 40% of the vote, compared with the DA at nearly 22% and former president Jacob Zuma's MK party at just under 15%. MK set a new record for the number of votes won by a new political party in South Africa in a general election. The IEC said it would announce the final results on Sunday. Legally, it must announce the results and seat…
COALITION TALKS | Deputy President Paul Mashatile and Western Cape Premier Alan Winde attend a coalition meeting at the University of the Western Cape in August 2023. Coalition negotiations will come down to a choice between democracy and kleptocracy. of News24 Editor write.The election results on 29 May 2024 present South Africa's political parties with a historic challenge: will they form a coalition government to protect and strengthen our constitutional democracy, or is this the start of a slide into populist kleptocracy? With populists such as the MK Party, EFF and PA gaining power and fully infiltrating our political system,…