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  • 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…

  • Mpofu argues remission reduced Zuma’s sentence, Ngcukaitobi differs

    Mpofu argues remission reduced Zuma’s sentence, Ngcukaitobi differs

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    Reading Time: 4 minutes The remission of sentence granted to former President, Jacob Zuma reduced his sentence. This is the argument advanced by his legal counsel, Advocate Dali Mpofu (SC). Mpofu argues that the ultimate sentence meted out against Zuma is effectively three-months due to the remission of sentence instead of the 15-months imposed by…

  • Political parties take IEC to ConCourt over election eligibility

    Political parties take IEC to ConCourt over election eligibility

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    Reading Time: < 1 minute Three political parties will take the Electoral Commission (IEC) to the Constitutional Court in a last-ditch bid to join the race for the 2024 national and provincial elections. The apex court will hear three applications from the African Congress for Transformation (ACT), Labour Party of South Africa and the Afrikan…

  • LIVE | Apex court hears eligibility applications from three parties

    LIVE | Apex court hears eligibility applications from three parties

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    Reading Time: < 1 minute Three political parties will take the Electoral Commission (IEC) to the Constitutional Court in a final bid to join the race to the 2024 National and Provincial elections. The apex court will hear three applications from the African Congress for Transformation (ACT), Labour Party of South Africa and Afrikan Alliance…

  • Reputation expert says there is nothing wrong with DA’s latest advert

    Reputation expert says there is nothing wrong with DA’s latest advert

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    Reading Time: 3 minutes Brand Reputation Management Strategist Solly Moeng says he sees nothing wrong with the Democratic Alliance (DA) controversial election advert showing images of the country’s flag burning. The narrator says the elections are about surviving the damage done to the country by the ruling African National Congress (ANC).  At the end of the…

  • Labour Party counsel disputes IEC online portal was working properly

    Labour Party counsel disputes IEC online portal was working properly

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    Reading Time: 2 minutes Counsel on behalf of the Labour Party of South Africa has argued that the assertions made by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) that its online portal worked well are untrue. Advocate Chris Loxton argues that the IEC, by its own admission, said only 65% of parties managed to upload their documents in accordance with Section…