The picture of who will run the country’s 278 municipalities became clearer as vote counting in the 2021 Local Government Elections reached 69% on Wednesday morning.
On Tuesday, the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) had aimed to complete 90% of vote counting by that evening.
However, the IEC in a statement on Wednesday said at the level of capturing, 90% of results were already in the system awaiting scanning and auditing.
This translated to 58 059 of the 64 502 expected results been captured in the results system.
It said: “Of the 58 059 results captured, 44 707 have been scanned into an image and thus available”.
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