/ 17 March 1999

ID JUDGMENT RESERVED

THE Constitutional Court on Tuesday reserved judgment in its hearing on the New National Party’s challenge to the government ruling that only voters with bar-coded identity books can vote in the June election. The judgment is pending the presentation of supporting documents. The NNP, which took its case to the Constitutional Court after losing its first legal bid in the Cape High Court last month, on Tuesday asked the court to issue an order forcing the government to allow voters to use any form of identity document to register and vote in the general election on June 2. Judgment is expected within two weeks.