Electoral Commission of South Africa

All these politicians are going to all the areas now and doing their own talks.

Meanwhile, Parliament is checking in on the Independent Electoral Commission to see how ready it is for next month's elections.

MPs who sit on the Cooperative Governance, Home Affairs and Security Committees are on an oversight visit to the Commission's offices in Centurion.

Newswater's Cliff Shiko reports.

We are 15 days away from the local government elections.

And yesterday, the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa announcing a partnership with digital platforms, which aims to ensure voters receive accurate information and obviously curb the spread of misinformation.

Joining me on the line is the General Manager for Electoral Matters at the IEC, James Apane.

James, lovely to have you back on the show.

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that Concord ruling for the IEC?

Look, one has to look at it at two levels.

From a constitutional point of view, I think not much of a blow.

And as I indicated, we are now able to produce ballots with all candidates included by the 30th of October.

I mean, practically speaking, though, I mean, I know you're saying that there's some constitutional clarity, but of course, you know, this is not your first election.

And part of what you had argued as the IEC around this was that some of these rules had been placed online.

for many a year and would have been known to all the parties concerned uh practically speaking i think there are people who still raise an eyebrow but perhaps let's wait for the actual reasons of the court around that and if it may be a loss for the iec as you say this is a victory for constitutional democracy and i imagine What it really says is that even if participants in elections, political parties and other candidates bungle things up, that still doesn't trump voters' rights.

Here's what moved across South African radio and podcasts over the last 24 hours.

The Concord-driven upheaval in the IEC's election logistics dominated bulletins on almost every station less than three weeks before the 4th of November local polls.

Sport desks balanced grief and celebration as South African rugby mourned Lions' lock Hyron Andrews, while the Bulls and Stormers opened their Champions Cup campaigns with big wins.

Police leadership and Gauteng's drug labs filled the remaining crime coverage, and a sweltering Saturday kept presenters on several stations talking about the heat.

First up, IEC scrambles after Concord ruling on ANC candidate lists.

The election story ran across Cape Talk, 702, SAFM, Power FM and CAIA 959.

The Constitutional Court reinstated 181 ANC candidates, so the IEC must now print an extra 6.6 million ballots.

Only 27 million of the 33 million required had been printed.