The South African Christian Leadership Initiative (SACLI) posted on Twitter that the Taizé-style prayers for young people between 18 – 35 years of age is happening at Volmoed, Hermanus and Ha Phororo, Hartebeespoortdam on November 27.
The theme is: “Hope through the Body and Blood”.
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“Regretfully Stage 4 loadshedding will be implemented from 14:00 on Friday until 05:00 on Saturday; thereafter Stage 2 loadshedding will continue until 05:00 on Monday,” the power utility, Eskom, wrote in a post on Twitter.
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VaxuMzansi is a campaign by the Religious Forum Against COVID-19 that aims to vaccinate up to 70% of their congregations and the communities in which they serve. Studies show that if 67,7% of the South African population vaccinate, we can reach population-wide immunity, drastically reducing COVID-19 hospitalisation and death rates
As the religious sector, we aim to play our part by encouraging vaccine uptake. To achieve this, we are running a series of vaccine events, which will be hosted among local religious groups.
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There are now 184 222 vaccinated children aged between 12 and 17 in South Africa, of which 13 569 received the single dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Thursday.
According to the Department of Health, the country administered 152 049 jabs in the past 24 hours, pushing the total doses to 22 965 123 since the start of the vaccination rollout programme.
In addition, South Africa now has 12 737 700 or 31.8% fully vaccinated adults.
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There were 26.1-million voters registered for these elections. Approximately 370 000 were registered in the pre-approved MEC 7 list. A total of 12.3 million South Africans voted in these elections.
It is my honour to provide the country with a national overview of the outcome of these elections.
In terms of the 213 municipalities contested:
The African National Congress achieved a majority in 161 Municipalities
The Democratic Alliance achieved a majority in 13 Municipalities
And the Inkatha Freedom Party achieved a majority in 10 municipalities.
In 66 municipalities no party achieved a majority – which are known as hung councils.
In the eight contested metropolitan councils, the top three parties are:
BUFFALO CITY
ANC 59.3%
DA 19.52%
EFF 12.06%
CITY OF CAPE TOWN
DA 58.22%
ANC 18.63%
EFF 4.13%
EKURHULENI
ANC 38.19%
DA 28.72%
EFF 13.57%
ETHEKWINI
ANC 42.02%
DA 25.62%
EFF10.48%
CITY OF JOHANNESBURG
ANC 33.60%
DA 26.47%
ACTION SA 16.05%
MANGAUNG
ANC 50.63%
DA 25.73%
EFF 11.31%
NELSON MANDELA BAY
DA 39.92%
ANC 39.43%
EFF 6.40%
CITY OF TSHWANE
ANC 34.31%
DA 32.34%
EFF 10.62%
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South Africa administered 158 787 COVID-19 vaccines in the past 24 hours, bringing the total doses to 22 799 682.
The Department of Health’s latest data shows that of the jabs administered on Wednesday, 145 828 were given to adults, while 12 959 were received by children aged between 12 and 17.
In addition, the country is now home to 12 620 892 or 31.4% fully vaccinated adults out of the 40 million government is targeting.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa will later today, Thursday 04 November 2021, attend the Independent Electoral Commission’s (IEC) announcement of the final results of the 2021 Municipal Elections.
The announcement ceremony, which will be broadcast live, commences at 18h00.
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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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The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) estimates that 90% of vote counting in the Monday 2021 Local Government Elections will be concluded by the end of Tuesday.
In its first media briefing since polls closed at 9pm, the IEC reported that, as at 10.30am, 27% of the 64 502 results expected, had been finalised.
“This status is in line with the expected result capturing process. It is estimated that 90 percent of results would be finalised by the evening. The balance of 10 percent would take another 24 hours to complete,” said Sy Mamabolo, IEC chief electoral officer (CEO).
Statistics revealed that the Northern Cape had completed 74% of its results. It was followed by the Western Cape at 46%.
In third position comes the Free State at 26%.
The rest of the provinces completion rate range between 15 and 37%.
Mamabolo said the result capturing involved several processes, including the verification of the result slips, the capturing, scanning and the auditing of the results.
“An independent audit firm have been procured for purposes of auditing the results,” he said.
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Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu and his wife Leah have cast their special votes for the local municipal elections. Two officials of the Electoral Commission of South Africa visited the couple at their Milnerton home on Saturday.
