{"id":50038,"date":"2026-11-05T09:05:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50038"},"modified":"2026-11-05T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T07:05:56","slug":"sas-iec-urges-patience-as-election-results-trickle-in","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-iec-urges-patience-as-election-results-trickle-in\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s IEC urges patience as election results trickle in"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Electoral Commission (IEC) Chief Officer,\u00a0Sy Mamabolo,\u00a0appeals to the general public to exercise patience as the 2026 Local Government Elections\u00a0results are slowly coming in.<\/div>\n<div>\nMamabolo says\u00a0the IEC will continue to cautiously audit votes to ascertain if double voting occurred.<\/div>\n<div>\nVote counting began immediately after polls closed\u00a0last night, with several operational hurdles and\u00a0<span class=\"x_spanWithBackgroundColor\">localised<\/span>\u00a0disruptions affecting the pace of voting and the initial rollout of data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The delay is threefold, you could say. One is the length of the ballot. Remember that you&#8217;ve got to count and return a result for every party. Even zero is a number. You&#8217;ve got to put that number in there.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":50039,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-50038","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Sy Mamabolo,\u00a0appeals to the general public to exercise patience","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50041,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50038\/revisions\/50041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}