Day: June 1, 2024
News24 | ‘Don’t start trouble when there is no trouble’: Zuma warns against declaring election results
Former president Jacob Zuma has insisted that the official results of the 2024 general elections should not be declared on Sunday.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Gritty Bulls dig deep to get requisite bonus point win and temporary URC top spot
It was a performance only a mother could dote on, but the Bulls' 26-14 win over the Sharks to secure at least a top two spot on the URC table would have been satisfying for the grit they had to show.
Continue ReadingNews24 | As ANC’s election results go to pot, Ramaphosa signs ‘two-pot’ system bill into law
As the IEC begins to finalise the much-awaited election results, which reveal the ANC's poor performance at the polls, President Cyril Ramaphosa has been hard at work, putting his signature to two bills on Saturday afternoon.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Malema demands finance and National Assembly’s speaker positions ahead of coalition talks
In addition to the country's purse strings in the ministry of finance, the EFF also wants the position of speaker of the National Assembly, and the new speaker "must not be a crook".
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘A bolt from Nkandla’: DA set on keeping ‘destructive’ MKP out of KZN govt as coalitions talks open
It's Saturday afternoon at the Electoral Commission of SA's results operation centre at the Durban International Convention Centre, and DA provincial chairperson Dean McPherson is on the phone, pacing up and down at the back of the brightly lit venue.
Continue ReadingNews24 | EXPLAINER | Here is what the Constitution says about electing SA’s next president and premiers
While negotiations are underway to form a new government, News24 took a look at what the Constitution says are the next steps that must take place after the election results are announced in electing the president and premiers.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘This is a message from our people’: ANC in KZN says it will ‘self-correct’ after election bloody nose
The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has begrudgingly conceded defeat after it was left with a bloody nose following Wednesday's general election results, which saw its support in the province dip below 50%.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Several parties call for vote recount, claiming not all their votes were captured
Several political parties have lodged objections with the Electoral Commission of SA amid claims that the results on display at results operations centres across the country do not reflect how South Africans voted in the 2024 general election.
Continue ReadingNews24 | Theuns Eloff | From deadlock to democracy: Lessons from Codesa for future coalitions
Theuns Eloff looks back to when he was head of administration of the multiparty negotiation process to glean some lessons learnt and processes adopted ahead of the 1994 elections that could be useful to political parties post the 2024 elections.
Continue ReadingNews24 | ‘We are not desperate to get into a coalition’ – IFP’s Velenkosini Hlabisa
IFP president Velenkosini Hlabisa says his party is happy with the results it already has in the bag despite any idea that the uMkhonto weSizwe Party has affected its support base.
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