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Elections 2009: media, social media coverage of voting and results
ELECTIONS 2009: These reports from newspapers, radio and TV around the country bring you the latest news on the election results, plus comment from candidates and views from voters. The official Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) site has been up and down, and some mainstream media sites are also taking strain but it's Twitter Search that is Bizcommunity.com's digital medium of choice for keeping on top of things!
Special election sites and features
- IEC: www.elections.org.za
- SA Elections powered by The Times: Election news from The Times. Check out the nifty graph of voting results.
- News24.com: Election news from News24.com. Check out its nifty map of voting results.
- Mail & Guardian: Election news from Mail & Guardian Online
- IOL: Election news from IOL
- IOL: Your voting experience…Voters give their experiences of the elections and voting process.
- SABCnews.com: Election Feature
- Eyewitness News: South African Elections 2009. Check out the Flickr photostream.
- iafrica.com: iafrica.com Election Focus
- Twitter Search: Realtime search results for #saelections hashtag. Twitter Search automatically lets you know when more tweets have been generated since your last refresh, both on the page and in the page title of your browser.
- SA Elections powered by The Times: @saelections
- Eyewitness News: Election tweets and photo links from @AkiAnastasiou, Talk Radio 702's trafficologist and host of tech show Technobyte. Anastasiou, a recent Twitter convert, was up in Primedia Broadcasting's Eyewitness News helicopter yesterday, Wednesday, 22 April 2009, posting aerial photographs of various polling station in Gauteng on TwitPic, a service which allows the sharing of photographs on Twitter.
- Talk Radio 702: Election tweets and retweets from @702land
Other South African social media
- Zoopy.com: Video, photos, audio and notes matching 'elections' from this South African social media aggregator
- Afrigator.com: Blog posts and news articles matching 'SA elections' from this African social media and news aggregator
- Amatomu.com: the largest tag in the tag cloud from this South African blog aggregator is vote
Overseas views
- BBC.com: Special report: South Africa elections
- Times Online, London: Voters queue from dawn to sweep Jacob Zuma to power
- Guardian Unlimited, London: Jacob Zuma poised to be next South African president
- The New York Times South Africans vote, likely for status quo