ANC officials have called for an investigation after the report by electoral committee head Kgalema Motlanthe found that the party’s list submitted to the IEC had been altered
Martin Plaut’s book on the disenfranchisement of black voters in 1909 suggests comparison with today’s inflammatory party-list system.
The IEC says only one objection to candidates on the political parties’ lists has been upheld, after it received 45.
The IEC says it has received about 40 objections to election candidates and will consider all of them by next week.
Political parties say that their priority in putting forth their candidate lists this year has been to submit credible people with no bad records.
The IEC says at least 48 political parties have paid their deposits and submitted parliamentary candidate lists ahead of the deadline.
Some of the ANC’s National Assembly nominees did not deserve to be on the list, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe said.
The ANC’s National Assembly choices shows a list of former administrations’ MPs – and previously booted ministers – set to return to power.
The DA has dared the ANC to publish the names of candidates nominated to represent the party in Parliament after elections.
