Vote counting is underway in one of the most hotly-contested democratic elections.
Preliminary results will emerge on Thursday, with an official winner declared on Saturday.
There were a record 48 parties on the ballot paper 19 more than last time around and nearly double the number that took part in the 1994 elections.
The first batch of numbers on the IEC’s national and provincial boards came through at around midnight.
The National Results Operations Centre in Pretoria is collating and verifying results from across the country.
About 26.8 million voters were registered to cast their ballots at 22,925 polling stations countrywide.
The integrity of the results is paramount to the credibility of all elections and all election results are only finally captured and displayed in the results system where the Commission is satisfied in the integrity of the results. #SAElections2019
— IEC South Africa (@IECSouthAfrica) May 8, 2019
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Source: eNCA
