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Ex-pat voting – tying up loose ends

By 6000 | 6000 | April 23, 2009

Just seen this on twitter (via @SAelections from The Times): The DA has won the overseas vote by 7581, COPE got 918, ANC only got 673 out of the 9857 that were cast in total. That only leaves a maximum of 622 for the VF+. They must be pretty annoyed after all the effort they [...]

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Look out Zuma!

By 6000 | 6000 | April 3, 2009

OK, so he may have other things on his mind today, but Jacob Zuma must also now face the fact that ex-pats are going to be voting in the April 22nd election, as predicted in 6000 miles… January 27th post. Following court applications by opposition parties (namely the DA and the VF+), the Independent Electoral [...]

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Should Expats be able to vote?

By 6000 | 6000 | January 27, 2009

With an election imminent, as with any political party in any country, each of the political parties in SA is working out how best to maximise their chances of not losing too heavily to the ANC. Apart from the ANC, of course. Their tactic seems to be to not give a toss what happens because they’re [...]

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