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Changed the year of the municipality elections from 2012 to 2011. The South African constitution para 159. "Terms of Municipal Councils" states: "1. The term of a Municipal Council may be no more than five years, as determined by national legislation. 2. If a Municipal Council is dissolved in terms of national legislation, or when its term expires, an election must be held within 90 days of the date that Council was dissolved or its term expired. " As the present municipal councils were elected in March 2006, the next elections will therefore take place sometime between March and June 2011. The reason why someone on Wikipedia initially "scheduled" the elections for 2012 must be that the the previous elections before 2006 were held in 2000. However, these were held 5 december,the 2006 elections were held 1 March, meaning that the 2006 elections were held within the maximum 5 years and 90 days mandated by the SA constitution. Kjetor ( talk) 10:26, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
ANC set to lose ground in South Africa vote - ArnoldPlaton ( talk) 08:23, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
It seems the IEC's website is once again usable. It was so severely overloaded yesterday that all my attempted lookups timed out. Roger ( talk) 11:42, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Is it really necessary to have twelve cites to support only three sentences? IMHO it's excessive. Roger ( talk) 12:52, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
How effective were the boycotts anyway? The overall polling percentage is the highest it's ever been but I don't know if it was effective in some localities. Roger ( talk) 10:59, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I think we should try to use the same colours on the maps and the tables. The maps distinguish very nicely between majority and plurality but the tables don't and the maps show the different ties well too. Having the same key for all the maps and tables would also make it easier and neater. Roger ( talk) 13:02, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
So I've reverted to the original color scheme. - htonl ( talk) 21:09, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
You'll notice that the Limpopo table lists Mutale as "not yet declared". I put it that way because the IEC website doesn't yet report the seat allocation for that council - the report just says "No data available." I'm hoping that they'll update the report on Monday, once the IEC staff wake up from the long sleep that they're no doubt taking! Of course one can safely assume that it's an ANC win. - htonl ( talk) 18:09, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
We have no information here about district council elections. Roger ( talk) 11:55, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
I've added brief introductory statements to the provincial sections that didn't have any. IMHO it creates a better balanced article to have such intros for all provinces, not only the "interesting" ones. Roger ( talk) 09:26, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
I caught quite a large error in the Gauteng table, it would be good if more eyes can once again verify the totals in all tables. It's a pity the Wikimedia software doesn't have at least basic arithmetic functions such as SUM built in. Roger ( talk) 10:30, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
The Western Cape map this has a question mark on Cape Town, which was won decisively by the DA. Could somebody update the map to reflect this fact? I'd do it myself if I knew how to do it but unfortunately I don't. -- 78.70.52.31 ( talk) 17:44, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
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Changed the year of the municipality elections from 2012 to 2011. The South African constitution para 159. "Terms of Municipal Councils" states: "1. The term of a Municipal Council may be no more than five years, as determined by national legislation. 2. If a Municipal Council is dissolved in terms of national legislation, or when its term expires, an election must be held within 90 days of the date that Council was dissolved or its term expired. " As the present municipal councils were elected in March 2006, the next elections will therefore take place sometime between March and June 2011. The reason why someone on Wikipedia initially "scheduled" the elections for 2012 must be that the the previous elections before 2006 were held in 2000. However, these were held 5 december,the 2006 elections were held 1 March, meaning that the 2006 elections were held within the maximum 5 years and 90 days mandated by the SA constitution. Kjetor ( talk) 10:26, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
ANC set to lose ground in South Africa vote - ArnoldPlaton ( talk) 08:23, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
It seems the IEC's website is once again usable. It was so severely overloaded yesterday that all my attempted lookups timed out. Roger ( talk) 11:42, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
Is it really necessary to have twelve cites to support only three sentences? IMHO it's excessive. Roger ( talk) 12:52, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
How effective were the boycotts anyway? The overall polling percentage is the highest it's ever been but I don't know if it was effective in some localities. Roger ( talk) 10:59, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
I think we should try to use the same colours on the maps and the tables. The maps distinguish very nicely between majority and plurality but the tables don't and the maps show the different ties well too. Having the same key for all the maps and tables would also make it easier and neater. Roger ( talk) 13:02, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
So I've reverted to the original color scheme. - htonl ( talk) 21:09, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
You'll notice that the Limpopo table lists Mutale as "not yet declared". I put it that way because the IEC website doesn't yet report the seat allocation for that council - the report just says "No data available." I'm hoping that they'll update the report on Monday, once the IEC staff wake up from the long sleep that they're no doubt taking! Of course one can safely assume that it's an ANC win. - htonl ( talk) 18:09, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
We have no information here about district council elections. Roger ( talk) 11:55, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
I've added brief introductory statements to the provincial sections that didn't have any. IMHO it creates a better balanced article to have such intros for all provinces, not only the "interesting" ones. Roger ( talk) 09:26, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
I caught quite a large error in the Gauteng table, it would be good if more eyes can once again verify the totals in all tables. It's a pity the Wikimedia software doesn't have at least basic arithmetic functions such as SUM built in. Roger ( talk) 10:30, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
The Western Cape map this has a question mark on Cape Town, which was won decisively by the DA. Could somebody update the map to reflect this fact? I'd do it myself if I knew how to do it but unfortunately I don't. -- 78.70.52.31 ( talk) 17:44, 15 October 2011 (UTC)