Elections 2009: media, social media coverage of voting and results

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

• 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