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  • SA expats to vote at different missions in just over a week

    SA expats to vote at different missions in just over a week

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    Reading Time: 2 minutes South Africans living abroad will vote at different missions around the world in just over a week. South Africa is among the few countries on the continent, that allows its citizens overseas to participate in elections. The Electoral Commission (IEC) has been able to increase the voters’ roll of those who…

  • Mabuza urges Gauteng to support Lesufi’s vision for prosperity

    Mabuza urges Gauteng to support Lesufi’s vision for prosperity

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    Reading Time: 2 minutes The former African National Congress (ANC) deputy president David Mabuza has urged the people of Gauteng to support his party’s provincial chair and premier candidate Panyaza Lesufi’s efforts to make Gauteng a safe and good province to work in. Mabuza and other party veterans including Thabo Mbeki, Kgalema Motlanthe and Tokyo…

  • ConCourt to hear IEC’s appeal on MK ruling

    ConCourt to hear IEC’s appeal on MK ruling

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    Reading Time: 2 minutes The Constitutional Court will on Friday hear the Independent Electoral Commission’s (IEC) appeal against the order of the Electoral Court that allows the former president Jacob Zuma to remain on the uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party’s candidates’ list. The Electoral Court had dismissed the commission’s disqualification of Zuma following an objection…

  • Live | ConCourt hears IEC vs Electoral Court over Zuma’s candidacy

    Live | ConCourt hears IEC vs Electoral Court over Zuma’s candidacy

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    Reading Time: < 1 minute The Constitutional Court hears the Electoral Court’s appeal against the order of the Electoral Court that allows the former president Jacob Zuma to remain on the Umkhonto Wesizwe party’s candidates’ list.  Livestream: 

  • Three parties excluded from 2024 ballot, ConCourt rules

    Three parties excluded from 2024 ballot, ConCourt rules

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    Reading Time: < 1 minute The Constitutional Court has ruled that three parties will be excluded from the ballot paper of the 2024 elections. They are the newly formed Labour Party, the Afrikan Alliance of Social Democrats and the African Congress for Transformation (ACT). This comes after the three political parties appealed to the Constitutional…

  • SA needs competent leaders to address challenges: Ebrahim Rasool

    SA needs competent leaders to address challenges: Ebrahim Rasool

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    Reading Time: 2 minutes Former SA Ambassador to the USA, Ebrahim Rasool, says the country needs intellectual leaders who are competent and possess the ability to deal with challenges that currently face the country. Rasool was delivering the third annual Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Public Lecture at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, Eastern Cape under the…

  • Mpofu argues bias test must be seen from Zuma’s perspective

    Mpofu argues bias test must be seen from Zuma’s perspective

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    Reading Time: 3 minutes Advocate Dali Mpofu, representing Zuma and the MK party, has argued that the test of reasonableness of bias must be viewed from the perspective of the litigant, in this case, former president Jacob Zuma. This after the bench in the Constitutional Court asked Mpofu about the test for the reasonable apprehension…

  • Some Limpopo residents call for clarity about third ballot paper

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    Reading Time: 2 minutes Some residents in Polokwane, Limpopo, say they still need clarification on how to use the third regional ballot papers in the upcoming general elections. The regional ballot was introduced following the amendment of the Electoral Act. The Act allows independent candidates to participate for the first time in the national and…

  • Casac argues remission is not pardon in the IEC-Zuma legal battle

    Casac argues remission is not pardon in the IEC-Zuma legal battle

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    Reading Time: 2 minutes The Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (Casac) and the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation have argued that a remission of a sentence does not undo a sentence that has been handed down by a court of law. Advocate Nick Ferreira, legal counsel for the organisations, admitted as friends of…

  • Ramaphosa says he doesn’t foresee a coalition government

    Ramaphosa says he doesn’t foresee a coalition government

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    Reading Time: < 1 minute African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed confidence that his party will emerge victorious in the upcoming elections. He says what he has sensed during his campaigns, people have shown trust in the ANC. He says majority of South Africans want to give the governing party another five…