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She said 20 765 IDs were collected on Wednesday, 3 569 of them in Limpopo and 3 532 in the Eastern Cape. At least 3 000 people had applied for temporary IDs.<\/p>\n
Without them, people would not have been able to vote, Dlamini-Zuma said at the Independent Electoral Commission results centre in Pretoria.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, the department waived its requirement that people applying for temporary IDs apply for permanent IDs at the same time, after turning away people who could not afford both documents.<\/p>\n
Home Affairs offices stayed open from 7am to 7pm on Wednesday, coinciding with voting hours, to process applications.<\/p>\n
“We did not want to be a stumbling block,” said Dlamini-Zuma.<\/p>\n
1202:<\/strong> The ANC had 1.8 million votes in Gauteng, South Africa’s economic hub, by midday on Thursday, with the DA on 950 801.<\/p>\n The ANC had 61.99% of the vote, compared to the DA’s 31.82%.<\/p>\n The Congress of the People had 1.13% (33 854 votes).<\/p>\n Total voter turnout stood at 1.3 million, with 5.5 million voters registered.<\/p>\n 1156: <\/strong>The Democratic Alliance garnered 59.94% of votes in the Western Cape compared to the ANC’s 30.04%, according to votes counted by noon on Thursday.<\/p>\n The DA received about 1.4 million votes and the ANC 686 587.<\/p>\n The embattled Congress of the People continued to feature on the results board, obtaining 2.37% or 54 186 votes.<\/p>\n Total voter turnout so far stood at 877 862 in the province with some 2.7 million registered voters.<\/p>\n 1150:<\/strong> The DA was looking forward to results from major metropolitan areas around the country, its leader, Helen Zille, said at the IEC’s results centre in Pretoria on Thursday.”So far it’s been great,” Zille told reporters. “We are looking forward to the metros.”<\/p>\n She said the tightly-fought Midvaal area, where the DA had won 60.71% of the vote and the ANC 37.17%, showed “an increased maturity” in votes.<\/p>\n Midvaal had been the only municipality held by the DA in Gauteng. The ANC has furiously campaigned to win it from the DA.<\/p>\n The DA was claiming nine of the 14 seats in the council, said DA strategist Ryan Coetzee.<\/p>\n Zille said the election had helped the DA “break through race being the primary issue” of elections in South Africa. She was confident that the party would win 20% of the national vote.<\/p>\n She congratulated the Independent Electoral Commission on a sterling job.<\/p>\n 11:42:<\/strong> The ANC was blazing ahead in the Free State’s Moqhaka municipality, where it had built unenclosed toilets, according to election results in by 11.30am on Thursday.<\/p>\n The party had 32 724 votes (61.43%) while the DA – also guilty of constructing open-air loos in Cape Town – followed with 14 404 votes (27.04%). According to results so far, of the 81 617 registered voters in the municipality, 16 356 had turned up to vote.<\/p>\n The Congress of the People followed with 4 042 votes, or 7.59%. The Freedom Front Plus received 1 080 votes or 2.03% of the total votes cast in the municipality.<\/p>\n The unenclosed toilet saga saw much mudslinging between the ANC and the DA in the run-up to the 2011 local government election.<\/p>\n 1120:<\/strong> The ANC had 52.14% of the vote in the Durban metro, followed by the DA with 26.30% by 11am on Thursday. The ANC had 82 761 votes and the DA 41 743 votes as the count continued.<\/p>\n The Inkatha Freedom Party followed the DA, with 5.02% or 7 966 votes and the National Freedom Party, an IFP breakaway, 4.06% or 6 440 votes.<\/p>\n In all, 1.7 million people registered to vote in the metro. A total of 158 726 valid votes had been counted so far.<\/p>\n 1120:<\/strong> ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe and IFP coordinator Musa Zondi renewed old bonds of friendship at the Independent Electoral Commission results centre on Thursday.<\/p>\n “This guy, he makes me laugh so much, Mantashe said as he and a giggling Zondi shared a joke.<\/p>\n People nearby were taken aback at the jolly duo.<\/p>\n “We are old political friends,” said Zondi as the pair shook hands and wished each other well in the elections.<\/p>\n They were laughing about former Inkatha Freedom Party chairwoman Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi, who now leads the National Freedom Party, an IFP splinter group.<\/p>\n Zondi told Mantashe he had heard a rumour that Msibi planned to destablise the ANC.<\/p>\n Laughing, Mantashe said the ANC had nothing to do with her and that she was “power hungry”.<\/p>\n Showing that there was no animosity between the two parties, Mantashe then went and shook each IFP member’s hand.<\/p>\n 1045:<\/strong> The ANC had a tight grip on Tshwane by mid-morning on Thursday, with about 53% of the vote compared to the DA’s 40%.<\/p>\n More than a million people voted in the municipality. By 10am, more than 100 000 votes had been counted.<\/p>\n The DA was hoping for victory in the area, where it claimed to have made significant inroads in traditional ANC strongholds.<\/p>\n The Christian Democratic Party held third place, with 0.60% of the vote.<\/p>\n 1043:<\/strong> Election results 10:43 Source IEC<\/p>\n 1031:<\/strong> Western Cape ANC leader Marius Fransman said the province’s rural areas were heading for a “a lot of hung councils” and it was still anybody’s guess who had won the Cape Town metro.<\/p>\n “In the rural areas we won some and we lost some. There will be a lot of hung councils,” he said, listing Oudtshoorn, Swellendam and Worcester among these.<\/p>\n “The metro, we don’t know,” Fransman said.<\/p>\n IEC spokesman Trevor Davids said it hoped to have provisional results for all parts of the province by early evening.<\/p>\n “The metro is still largely outstanding. We are really pushing for the end of this day and hope to have a provisional result for the province,” he said.<\/p>\n 10:16:<\/strong> Reuters: Below are latest results of vote counting from Wednesday\u2019s South African local elections, in which the opposition Democratic Alliance appeared to gain some support from voters disenchanted with the government\u2019s failure to provide basic services.<\/p>\n The table shows the percentage held by the parties after the counting of results from 5,93 million voters out of 23,6 million registered voters.<\/p>\n PERCENTAGE OF NATIONAL VOTE<\/p>\n PARTY: Latest count: 2006 result<\/p>\n African National Congress 62,52: 67,71<\/p>\n Democratic Alliance 24,00: 13,92<\/p>\n Congress of the People 2,84: –<\/p>\n Inkatha Freedom Party 3,48: 8,38<\/p>\n National Freedom Party 2,36: –<\/p>\n United Democratic Movement 0,70: 1,42<\/p>\n Freedom Front Plus 0,54: 0,97<\/p>\n African Christian Democratic Party 0,56: 1,24<\/p>\n 09:53:<\/strong> The three-month-old breakaway National Freedom Party had secured 17 seats throughout the country by 9am on Thursday.<\/p>\n “We didn’t expect this at all. This party is still at infancy,” said party convenor Evans Sosibo.<\/p>\n “We are very happy because this sets a solid foundation for us in the 2014 election.”<\/p>\n The NFP is a splinter group from the Inkatha Freedom Party, which has obtained 28 seats so far.<\/p>\n The NFP said it was doing best in KwaZulu-Natal, where it had obtained 51% of the vote in the Dumbe municipality and 56 in the IFP stronghold of Nongoma. It had taken the Motereng metro, in North West.<\/p>\n Sosibo said sources on the ground claimed the NFP had secured Cleveland, in Johannesburg, but this still had to be confirmed.<\/p>\n “It’s obvious that our campaigning went well, especially in KZN. We will definitely be celebrating this weekend,” he said.<\/p>\n The United Democratic Movement had secured five seats, four of them in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n UDM official Jana Warffemius said it was an improvement from the 2006 municipal elections.<\/p>\n2011 Local Government Election results Latest News<\/h1>\n