As vote counting continues following South Africa's highly contested 2026 Local Government Elections held on Wednesday, political parties have begun reacting to the electoral process, with many describing the polls as free and fair even before the counting process got underway. Voting stations opened at 7am and closed at 9pm, with no major incidents reported during the voting process. At the Results Operations Centre (ROC) in Midrand, the nerve centre of the country's vote tallying process, Channel Africa reporter Micheal Mbewe spoke to a number of political representatives about their assessment of the elections and their expectations as the results continue to trickle in

<p>As vote counting continues following South Africa's highly contested 2026 Local Government Elections held on Wednesday, political parties have begun reacting to the electoral process, with many describing the polls as free and fair even before the counting process got underway. Voting stations opened at 7am and closed at 9pm, with no major incidents reported during the voting process. At the Results Operations Centre (ROC) in Midrand, the nerve centre of the country's vote tallying process, Channel Africa reporter Micheal Mbewe spoke to a number of political representatives about their assessment of the elections and their expectations as the results continue to trickle in</p>

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