South African Polls

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  Opposition Seeks Partners After South Africa Poll Success

  South Africa's main opposition Democratic Alliance said today it was seeking coalition partners to run major cities including the capital and business centre Johannesburg after defeating the ruling ANC in local polls.

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  African National Congress Suffers Major Poll Defeat In South African Capital

  South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) suffered a historic defeat in the country's capital to the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) in local elections, the electoral commission said today.

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  Voters Condemn South African Ruling Party To Worst Election Outcome

  South Africa's ruling party was struggling on Saturday to retain control of two major municipalities after losing one other key urban area in its worst electoral performance since the end of apartheid.

• Indian-Origin Voters Move Away from African National Congress in South Africa Polls

  Though the African National Congress (ANC) has won the just-concluded polls in South Africa, the ruling party seems to have failed to win over the Indian community in the country.

• Unrest in South Africa Township Following Vote

  South African police said on Saturday they arrested around 60 rioters after violent protests in a Johannesburg township amid allegations of voter fraud in elections that returned Nelson Mandela's ANC to power.

• 'Extremely High Turnout' in Landmark South African Elections

  Millions of determined South Africans -- including hundreds of thousands of first-time "born free" voters -- turned out in "extremely high" numbers for a landmark general election on Wednesday.

• Anger, Determination As South Africa Votes

  Twenty years after South Africans of all colours wowed the world by voting to end apartheid, they shrugged off sporadic violence and flocked to polls Wednesday, with the ANC expected to return for a fifth consecutive term.

• Polls Open in South Africa's Fifth All-Race Elections

  South Africans voted on Wednesday in elections that are expected to see the ruling African National Congress return to power despite a vigorous challenge from opposition parties seeking to capitalize on discontent with corruption and economic inequality.

• South Africa Holds First 'Born Free' Election

  South Africa holds its first "Born Free" election on Wednesday although polls suggest the allure of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) as the conqueror of apartheid will prevail even among voters with no memory of white-minority rule.

• South Africa Set for Polls Tomorrow

  The majority of the 24 million registered voters in South Africa are expected to head to polls tomorrow to elect a fifth democratic government since anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela first assumed power in 1994 after decades of white-minority rule.

• Auto companies hopes to grow South African motorbike market

  Greeks went to the polls on Sunday in an election that could decide whether their heavily indebted country remains in the euro zone or heads for the exit, potentially unleashing shocks that could break up the single currency. Opinion polls show Greeks, weary after five years of deep recession, overwhelmingly favour remaining in the euro, but there ...

• Badal's political imprisonment second only to Mandela

  Did you know that Parkash Singh Badal, who could be Punjab chief minister for the fifth time, is the longest political prisoner in the world after South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela? Born Dec 8, 1927, Badal spent nearly 17 years of his life in jails as a political prisoner - he was booked for a civil liberty agitation, sent to jail ...

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  S Africans vote; ANC set to sweep polls

  South Africans on Wednesday thronged polling booths to cast their ballots in the fourth multi-racial polls.