PM LIVE BLOG: IFP snatches Jacob Zuma’s ward in Nkandla from ANC

Nkandla - THE Inkatha Freedom Party has inflicted more local government election wounds on the ANC in the Nkandla local municipality after snatching the prized ward 14 – former president Jacob Zuma’s home.

For the longest time, the ward was in the hands of the ANC, serving as a bastion for the ruling party in the IFP-run municipality.

The ANC briefly ran the municipality in 2011, when it entered into a coalition with the National Freedom Party, but the coalition soured and the IFP bounced back.

Despite the setback, the ANC was able to retain ward 14, even attaching its significance to the fact that it was the home of Zuma and under the clan of the Zumas of Nkandla led by Inkosi Bhekumuzi Zuma.

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Former president Jacob Zuma casts his vote in Ntolwane Primary school in Nkandla, KZN on November 01, 2021. Zuma was accompanied buy his wife Bongi Ngema Zuma before he went and interacted with ANC supporters outside the voting station at the school. Picture: Doctor Ngcobo/African News Agency(ANA)

Johannesburg - DA Leader John Steenhuisen has claimed victory for the DA in the Eastern Cape's Kouga Municipality.

The municipality consists of towns including Jeffreys Bay, St Francis Bay, Cape St Francis and Thornhill.

Steenhuisen announced the victory at the IEC’s Command Centre in Pretoria, telling reporters the party had secured the most seats in the council.

In 2016, the DA won the same municipality with 17 seats and 56.49% of the vote, while the ANC secured 12 seats and 40.57% of the vote and the EFF were third, with 0.96% of the vote.

With the count not officially over in Kouga, the Electoral Commission’s live data showed that the DA had secured nine Council seats as well as 53.5% of the vote, while the ANC had secured 37.18% of the vote and six Council seats.

Cape Town - The Electoral Commission (IEC) has stood by its voter management devices (VMDs) despite it presenting glitches and problems through the election process on Monday.

IEC chief electoral officer, Sy Mamabolo said they believed the voter management devices were the mainstay equipment for this election

He said it was these devices that ensured the IEC continued to meet the constitutional courts injunction that voters only vote in the wards in which they are registered and that every voter must have an address on the voters’ roll.

In a morning briefing held at the National Results Operations Centre (ROC) in Tshwane on Tuesday, Mamabolo said 12 186 869 votes were processed through the VMDs over the two days of special votes as well as election day.

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Tue, 02 Nov 2021 13:36:25 GMTIOL

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