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Some elections show signs of progress — youth-driven political transitions and active citizen involvement — others reveal systemic problems, including political manipulation and disenfranchisement. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Democracy tested: What the 2024 African election scorecard reveals about progress and problems

Some elections show signs of progress — youth-driven political transitions and active citizen involvement — others reveal systemic problems, including political manipulation and disenfranchisement

African National Congress President Cyril Ramaphosa shares a light moment with NEC members after announcing that the ANC will seek a “unity” government.  (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

Good governance wins votes: The one lesson the ANC seemingly ignored

In forming a new government, the ANC needs to ensure its partners can improve governance and service delivery

Jacob Zuma, former South African president and leader of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK Party), during a news conference at the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) national results operation centre in Midrand, South Africa, on Saturday, June 1, 2024. (Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Jacob Zuma’s MK party off to ConCourt to try interdict first sitting of parliament

The party said its MPs would boycott the National Assembly in a bid to rob the chamber of legal standing when it elects the president

Supporters of Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe party (MK), celebrate as they win almost 46% of the vote in KwaZulu-Natal and almost 15% nationally on June 2, 2024, in KwaXimba.(Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

KwaZulu-Natal leads voter turnout, Jacob Zuma’s MK party dominates provincial and national ballots

The province did not experience violent protests during the elections, as some analysts and residents feared, but police remain on high alert

Former president Jacob Zuma. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy/Mail & Guardian)

Zuma issues threat of ‘trouble’, but IEC says plans for election announcement are on track

The former president is demanding that the announcement of the final result be delayed to allow the MK Party to lodge objections

“Where the commission finds materiality through the results process it will order appropriate remedies which in some instances may need specific recounts,” Sy Mamabolo, chief electoral officer of the IEC said. (Photo:  Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

IEC prepared to recount votes if audit outcomes motivate for it

Parties had an opportunity to test the system used for the electoral processes before voting began, says commission

Supporters of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party gather outside the Ntolwane Primary School voting station on May 29, 2024 in Nkandla, rural KwaZulu-Natal. (Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson/Getty Images)

MK party says it will reject election outcome without recount

Spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela says that the figures in slips signed by presiding officers do not tally with those collated by party agents

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KZN police commissioner, Lieutenant General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, during a visit to the provincial Results Operation Centre in Durban, on Friday. Photo: Lyse Comins

KwaZulu-Natal police faced over 900 protests and civil unrest in lead-up to elections

KZN is stable, despite many incidents of civil unrest in recent months, according to the provincial commissioner

Eskom is inadvertently helping drive the global sustainable energy movement by rapidly pricing South Africans out of the grid energy market.  Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Getty Images

Vote for a just energy plan with enduring solutions

South Africa needs a leadership that comprehends the interconnectedness of our nation’s energy crisis and the climate emergency

John Steenhuisen, image by Delwyn Verasamy

Steenhuisen: NHI bill a populist stunt before the elections

The Democratic Alliance leader urged supporters at a rally in Benoni to use their pens on 29 May to bring an end to the ANC government

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Steenhuisen calls on South Africans to strip the ANC of its majority

Democratic Alliance leader John Steenhuisen asked voters to give his party a chance

Success: Laila Bera voted at the South African embassy in Washington DC – and made friends with expats in the queue. Photo: Supplied

SA citizens complain about voting abroad

They have grumbled about having to travel long distances and poor communication by the IEC

President Cyril Ramaphosa
 Photo: Sharon Seretlo/Getty Images

Ramaphosa ‘outraged’ by other parties wanting do do away with national minimum wage

ANC draws a crowd of about 60 000 at its final Siyanqoba rally held in Joburg’s 94 000-seater FNB Stadium

Dean Zwoitwaho Nevhutalu, a Trustee at Kagiso Trust.
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Kagiso Trust debate on the youth and the upcoming elections

Young people are tokenized in politics; everyone wants them to vote, but nobody is actually addressing their concerns

Which political parties are top of SA voters’ minds?

Results from the latest eNCA election poll

How science should meet politics in the 2024 elections

Are we going to the polls with the intention of a paradigm change, or are we voting to retain the current paradigm that no longer works?

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WATCH | One-on-one interview with DA’s John Steenhuisen

DA leader, John Steenhusinen, sat down with the Mail & Guardian’s Lizeka Tandwa, for a one-on-one interview.

Beliefs: Matters such as Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people and the role of women in society are among the issues that will decide where Muslim voters place their crosses in May’s elections. Photo David Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images

Who will Muslims vote for?

Few parties align with my beliefs as a follower of Islam and a South African, writes Ozayr Patel

Former president Thabo Mbeki.

Mbeki confirms he will campaign for ANC

The former president said the Democratic Alliance’s call to have the West send election observers showed where its trust lay