JOHANNESBURG, June 14 (ANA) – Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court Mogoeng Mogoeng on Tuesday ruled that the local government elections scheduled for 3 August 2016 will go ahead as planned.
Handing down his judgement in the urgent matter brought by the IEC seeking leave to appeal an earlier Electoral Court ruling that it furnish addresses of registered voters to candidates contesting the elections, Mogoeng said he did not have the power to postpone the elections.
He said the IEC had acted unlawfully by letting people whose addresses were not properly recorded to vote.
Mogoeng concurred with the earlier Electoral Court judgment that stated that all voter details must include “sufficient particularity” to determine their place of residence within a voting district. He found the voters roll was unlawful and should be fixed by 2019.
The elections would go ahead as scheduled.
– African News Agency (ANA)
