People’s Assembly caught up with the DA’s Patricia De Lille and ANC’s Marius Fransman at the IEC Provincial Results Centre in Belville South to get their responses to the Western Cape's provincial results. By 5pm on Thursday approximately 90% of votes had been tallied in the Western Cape with the ...

Election Day is over and we are already well into the vote counting process. So, what happens after the results are announced? To see a timeline for upcoming events, take a look at these infographics.

Timeline for the National Assembly:

Timeline for the National Council of Provinces:

“This is the earliest we have ever managed to close voting stations on Election Day”, said IEC Western Cape’s Provincial Electoral Officer, Courtney Sampson, signalling that election officials did not have to accommodate long queues for hours after the official closing time at 9pm. Sampson was addressing the media at ...

People’s Assembly decided the best way to spend Elections Day was to speak to the people themselves and find out what their experiences at the polls were and what it meant for them to vote. We visited a number of voting stations in the greater Cape Town area.

At the ...

Members of the Electoral Code of Conduct Commission (ECCOC), which is chaired by the Anglican Arch Bishop of Cape Town observed the elections on May 7 to ensure procedures were being followed and elections proceeded smoothly.

Members were divided into teams to observe polling stations in the Drakenstein area, including ...

One of the most important principles in South Africa is the separation between the judiciary, legislature, and the executive. However, two recent examples point to a worrying blurring of the lines between party, government and legislature.

Both have to do with the Public Protector’s report on the Nkandla matter. The ...

With Election Day around the corner, it’s important to start getting “election-ready”. Questions like whether you have your bar-coded South African ID booklet ready, if you are registered and if you know which voting station to go to should be at the forefront of your mind right now. People’s Assembly ...

With the lead up to elections, representatives of the Right2Know (R2K) social movement campaign marched through the streets of Cape Town on Friday, May 2, in silent protest for freedom and the public’s right to know about various political issues such as political party funding, and the secrecy and corruption ...

Just two more days and Election Day will be upon us! For some, it's an exciting time but for others fulfilling their democratic right to vote, it can be a frustrating day. Potential voters are often put off by the thought of waiting in long queues or wondering around looking ...

People’s Assembly caught up with Francine Higham of the Vote Home campaign to get a sense of how yesterday’s voting abroad went. Numbers are what count the most but final figures have yet to be tallied. Unofficially the figure was 8 500 in London alone, with an estimate of over ...