Eligible voters are set to elect 10 461 councillors who will take seats in 257 different municipal councils comprising eight metros, 44 district councils and 205 local councils.

The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) officially launched its National Results Operations Centre (ROC) in Tshwane today. This Centre, at the Tshwane Events Centre, will serve as an important bastion from which the entirety of the Electoral process will be coordinated. With 26.2 million South Africans registered to participate in this year's local government elections, the announcement of the voting results is expected on Thursday the 4th of November. .

The IEC said this election was highly contested with 95 427 candidates who qualified to take part – 61 111 candidates were contesting wards and 34 316 candidates were contesting Proportional Representation (PR) seats.

This weekend, the IEC will undertake the special votes. It has been reported that 507 318 home visits will take place and 602 781 voting station-based special votes captured.

Title:                                   [• Ms.]   

Name:                                [• Kate Bapela] 

Position AND organisation:  [• National Spokesperson of the Electoral Commission]