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Reading Time: < 1 minute The Electoral Commission (IEC) says that the list of political parties that will contest next month’s national elections will be finalised once all matters being heard in the Electoral Court are concluded. Speaking at the Gallagher Estate in Midrand, Johannesburg, where political parties and independent candidates are signing the National…

Reading Time: < 1 minute A senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Wits University, Dr. Hlengiwe Ndlovu, says political parties campaigning ahead of next month’s elections have neglected to adequately address the main challenges, affecting women in the country. Ndlovu says women comprise a significant portion of the electorate. After analysing various parties’…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Attorney and Legal Director at the Institute of Elections Management Services, Nkululeko Tselane says Commissioner Judge Dhaya Pillay’s decision to recuse herself from deciding on Former President Jacob Zuma’s candidacy in the 2024 elections should be praised. This as the IEC yesterday announced that Zuma will not be able to stand…

Reading Time: 4 minutes The African National Congress (ANC) president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has called on churches to pray for South Africa to have peaceful elections come May 29 and for the IEC to conduct free and fair elections. This as the country marks 30 years under a democratic government. Ramaphosa emphasised, however, that he is…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Xiluva leader Bongani Baloyi together with his supporters have spent the first year of the party’s anniversary cleaning up Johannesburg Central’s Noord Taxi Rank. Baloyi who represented the Democratic Alliance (DA) as a former Mayor of Midvaal, was also formerly a member of ActionSA until he resigned from that party after…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Political Analyst Professor Dirk Kotze says former President Jacob Zuma will continue to pull the strings regardless of who the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party chooses as a presidential candidate. This after the Electoral Commission (IEC) upheld an objection against Zuma’s candidature in the upcoming elections. The IEC earlier in the week…

Reading Time: < 1 minute Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgabo has cautioned South Africans to carefully consider who they will vote for in the 2024 elections. He was speaking during his Easter Vigil at St George’s Cathedral last night. Makgabo has called on the electorate to examine the credentials and manifestos of contesting…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Xiluva leader Bongani Baloyi says his party is ready to run for seats in the National Assembly as well as the Gauteng Legislature in the May 29th elections. On Xiluva’s first anniversary yesterday, Baloyi and party supporters cleaned up the Noord Taxi Rank in Johannesburg. As part of celebrating their one…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Political analyst Andre Duvenhage says there is a possibility that a female candidate may emerge as the next Premier in the North West if the African National Congress (ANC) is victorious in the upcoming national and provincial elections. ANC chairperson in the province Nono Maloyi’s name does not appear on the…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party says it will appeal the decision by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to uphold an objection brought against former President Jacob and MK party leader Jacob Zuma as a candidate for the party on its list of people to go to Parliament after the May…