Who Should Judge South Africas Got Talent?

Ok so South Africa is ‘Getting Talent’ So not only do we have to be content with the knobs on Idols [here], we now also have to follow every move Simon Cowell ever made and get SA’s Got Talent. Are we going to find our own Internet phenomenon like Susan Boyle? Only time will tell. [...]

Cape Town Anti Drug Message – Keep Off The Sand…Errr Grass

I found this sign on Table View Beachfront the other day, rusted, clearly been there a loooong time, I can’t remember there having been grass at this spot for years! Now I was a wee bit hungover from a mates bday at

Foundation calls for Madiba Day

The 46664 and Nelson Mandela Foundation on Monday urged people to support the creation of a day on which former president Nelson Mandela is honoured around the world every year. The organisations said Mandela’s July 18 birthday was the date set aside. “We would be honoured if such a day can serve to bring together [...]

Nifty IOL Advert Prevents Freedom Of Choice

I don’t know how to replicate it, but today I saw a rather interesting advert on the www.iol.co.za website. Have a look you might still catch it

Losing Two Thirds Majority A Psychological Blow For The ANC

Pretoria – The mighty ANC was on Saturday given a psychological blow when the final election results confirmed that it had lost its two-thirds majority. Jacob Zuma’s party received 65.9% of the vote -the ANC’s weakest performance since the first democratic elections in 1994. That’s almost 4% less than in 2004. The ANC’s Jeff Radebe [...]

Massive Voter Turnout Numbers In South African General Election 2009

Seventy-seven percent of registered South African voters turned up to cast their votes in the 2009 election, according to results released at the IEC centre in Pretoria. Voter turnout in all but one province was above 70 percent. In the Limpopo 69,62 percent of the registered voters turned up to vote. Nationally 23,181,997 registered to [...]

ANC Wins South African General Election 2009

The African National Congress has won the South African General Elections for 2009 and will rule the country for another 5 years. The party has announced it is happy with its performance in the election despite missing a two-thirds majority by a whisker. ANC spokesperson Ishmael Mnisi said the party did not need such a [...]

Jesse Duarte Rant, misses the point completely.

[ad#468x60] The latest Internet based ANC media ‘episode’ involves ANC spokeswoman Jesse Duarte. She recently missed the point, lost the plot and showed herself to be oversensitive to a question regarding whether Jacob Zuma read responses to his blog. She turned this rather innocent question on it’s head, bemoaning the fact that people though JZ [...]

decoDance Fetish Party 25th April

Sticks & stones may break my bones, but whips & chains excite me!! decoDANCE is holding a Fetish party this weekend. Attend the Fetish party this Saturday night and share your deep dark fantasies… Where: decoDANCE Underground Old Biscuit Mill, 375 Lower Main Road, Woodstock When: Saturday, 25 April Time: 20:30 – 04:00 Cover: Free [...]

Final South African Election Votes Tally Emerging

EArlier this afternoon, the count reached the 16 million mark, totalling 16,025,818 shortly before 5pm. The number was registered voters is 23,282,997. This indicated that the IEC was 70 percent of the way through processing the results. The ANC remained in pole position with 10,479,367 votes (66.29) followed by the Democratic Alliance with 1,184,456 votes [...]

Election results – counting slows down.

The counting of votes slowed down drastically on Friday morning, with only 435 932 tallied since midnight. By 06:25, the ANC had 8 363 065 votes, or 66.9% of the 12 500 704 votes counted. The DA was on 15.95% with 1 993 238 votes, while Cope had 7.61% with 951 522 votes. The IFP [...]

South African General Election Results – Count reaches 7 million

Latest South African Election Results UPDATED HERE. The ANC is close to clinching a two-thirds majority, with 65.75 percent of the national vote going to the ruling party as of 2.26pm. So far more than 6,9 million national ballots have been counted. The DA’s total has slid down to below 17 percent and COPE’s total [...]

South African Election Results – 6 million Votes Counted

Latest South African Election Results UPDATED HERE. The vote count climbed above six million, according to results released by the IEC in Pretoria shortly before 13:00 on Wednesday. The African National Congress had over 60% of these with 3 988 079. The Democratic Alliance is in second place with 1 097 045 votes. The Congress [...]

High turnout in South African Election hailed

Latest South African Election Results UPDATED HERE. Voter turnout is currently sitting at 77 percent with vote counts from 12,402 districts still outstanding, Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chairwoman Brigalia Bam said today. Briefing the media in Pretoria, Bam said votes from 7,332 voting districts had been counted by just after noon. “We will only know [...]

South African Election Results – 5.2 million votes counted

Latest South African Election Results UPDATED HERE. More than 5.2 million votes had been counted by 11.30am today according to the latest results at the election centre in Pretoria. The African National Congress had 3,434,611 votes. The Democratic Alliance trailed with 988,923 votes followed by the Congress of the People with 433,261 votes. The number [...]

South African Election Results – 4 million votes counted

Latest South African Election Results UPDATED HERE. More than four million votes had been counted by 10.30am today according to the latest results at the election centre in Pretoria. The African National Congress had 2,687,044 votes thus far, with the Democratic Alliance trailing with 784, 392 votes followed by the Congress of the People with [...]

ANC set to Lose Western Cape

Latest South African Election Results UPDATED HERE. “This was possibly the best result we could have had in the Western Cape” This was said by a senior ANC official, who understandably did not want to be identified. The Western Cape is the one province in the country where the early results show that the ANC [...]

Cape Town Charity Case set to kick off 5 May 2009

Watch this space… Joe SocialI’m writing this cos I have a lot to say and sometimes I cant sleep unless I write it. Then its gone from my head.More Posts – Website

South African Election Results: 3 Million Votes Counted So Far

Latest South African Election Results UPDATED HERE. More than three million votes had been counted in the national elections by 08:30 on Thursday morning. The results put the ruling African National Congress in a commanding lead with 2 078 352 votes A total of 3 304 062 votes had been counted. But it is still [...]

Massive turnout in South African Election

Latest South African Election Results UPDATED HERE. There are reports of a massive turnout in the South African General Election of 2009. In what News24 calls

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