The team behind the EskomSePush app has launched ElectionsSePush, an online dashboard that tracks results from the November 2026 Local Government Elections.
The platform shows a map of results that will update in real time once polls close at 21:00 on election day. It also includes some EskomSePush statistics, according to MyBroadband.
“I wanted something to live-track the upcoming local elections. Simple, with some ESP stats bundled in,” co-founder Dan Southwood-Wells wrote on X.
Southwood-Wells said the company built the tracker to help South Africans follow the elections and spot any dodgy behaviour in the process.
In an interview with Radio Islam, he said the idea came after the team looked through data from the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for maps.
“Some people understand elections and the IEC process really well, and the general South African doesn’t,” he said.
He said the platform aimed to answer simple questions from voters. These include why they get a certain number of ballots, how they can get involved and how to make sure the process stays clean.
Users can browse the map and also look at results from past elections, Southwood-Wells said.
He said most of the data on ElectionsSePush comes from the IEC. The company has a relationship with the commission that allows it to publish IEC data.
“Anything that we’ve seen that we’re unsure of its validity, we just don’t show it, or we have a note within the app and the web platform that says we’re unsure about it,” he said.
Southwood-Wells said the company would keep talking to the IEC about any information that has not been checked or could be wrong.
EskomSePush became a popular app during the worst years of load-shedding. It gave users power cut schedules for their own areas.
There were only eight days of load-shedding in 2025. This pushed the company to change the app into a local community notice board built around chats.
The app now uses real suburbs and areas instead of the old load-shedding blocks. Users can see schedules, local chats and outage reports in one place.
Co-founder Herman Maritz told MyBroadband that the app has around 300,000 daily users on quiet days without load-shedding.
“Big local weather events, and water or electricity outages can push the average to roughly 500,000 daily users,” Maritz said.
He said people now use the chats to check on electricity faults, water cuts, fibre problems and broken traffic lights.
Maritz said the company plans to keep growing the platform so that utilities and businesses can respond faster when things go wrong.
Source: this article is based on reporting by MyBroadband. Image: MyBroadband. Written with the help of AI and published by the Tzaneen Voice News desk. See our Editorial Standards.
Kgomotso Maake covers news and politics for Tzaneen Voice. Kgomotso reports on government, Parliament, municipalities, courts, crime and service delivery across South Africa, with a close eye on how national decisions reach towns like Tzaneen and the wider Limpopo province. Stories are written in plain English and focus on the facts: who made the decision, what it means, and what happens next.