With South African going to the polling stations for the 4th democratic elections since 1994 you may be interested in the latest blog from DTI titled "Technology use in the 2009 South African elections" on PEP-NET: http://pep-net.eu/wordpress/?p=397

In the run up to Wednesday 22 April elections, campaigning is being played out in traditional media (TV, radio, print), on the internet, on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, in text messages/sms’s with street banners and in rallies across South Africa.

173 parties – 134 at national level plus 39 purely provincial parties – are officially registered for the 2009 elections, but the blog look into the use ICT by the four main parties (alphabetical order): ANC - African National Congress, COPE - Congress of the People, DA - Democratic Alliance and IFP - Inkatha Freedom Party. The blog look at the functionalities of the party websites and their presence on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.