KZN edges closer to halfway mark of vote count

There was movement again on the IEC's results dashboard on Friday morning after a system interruption at its national results centre in Midrand. 

Its website also went down for almost two hours. 

They have both since come back online. 

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Almost 42 per cent of KZN's votes have been captured, which translates to over 1.2 million votes.

Jacob Zuma's MK party has officially crossed the half-a-million mark and is leading in the province.

Nationally, they have about 10 per cent of the votes and are third.

Officials from the party have begun gathering at the ROC and are feeding information to their counterparts in Gauteng.

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The MK's Musa Mkhize said they are happy with their performance.

"It was important for us to be on the ground with the leadership, Amakhosi, church leaders, many leaders in the community, making sure that we engage, where can we do better and how can we do it."