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Six days out: IEC opens results centre as special voting and ID rules near
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Six days out: IEC opens results centre as special voting and ID rules near

The Electoral Commission officially launched its National Results Operations Centre at the Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand on Wednesday, six days before the 4 November local government elections. The centre will verify results from 23,000 voting stations for the country's 29.2 million registered voters, contested by a record 136,790 candidates. Special voting begins on 2 and 3 November for 2.65 million approved voters, while Home Affairs extends office hours to issue IDs and voters are reminded driver's licences will not be accepted. Also in this briefing: up to 50 critical medicines short in public clinics as the DA demands a parliamentary inquiry; Suliman Carrim granted R100,000 bail as the court finds no grounds to keep him in custody; and a R7 billion rare earths project in the Northern Cape positions South Africa for clean energy manufacturing.

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The Electoral Commission added fourteen thousand voting devices to prevent repeat delays from twenty twenty-four.

Special-vote applications surged one hundred and thirty-one percent, driven largely by home visits for older women.

Unpaid provincial health debts of twenty-four billion rand have sparked critical shortages across fifty essential medicines.

Businessman Suliman Carrim secured bail but remains detained over a separate cross-border luxury vehicle investigation.

A seven billion rand rare earths project in the Northern Cape aims to localize magnet mineral refining.

In this episode
  1. 01Intro1 min
  2. 02Six days out: IEC opens results centre as special voting and ID rules near: Operational nerve centre2 min
  3. 03Six days out: IEC opens results centre as special voting and ID rules near: Voter requirements and safeguards2 min
  4. 04Up to 50 critical medicines short in public clinics as DA demands inquiry1 min
  5. 05Suliman Carrim granted R100,000 bail as court finds no grounds to hold him1 min
  6. 06Where things stand1 min
  7. 07IDC puts R7bn into Northern Cape rare earths for EV and wind-turbine magnets1 min
  8. 08Outro1 min
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