IEC changes tune on ActionSA logo
30 September 2020
Note to editors: An excerpt from the interview with IEC Deputy CEO, Masego Sheburi, can be found here.
ActionSA welcomes the IEC’s retraction of their previous stipulation that the features of the South African flag in the Action SA logo were grounds for their rejection of our application to register as a political party.
In an interview on SABC today, Deputy CEO Masego Sheburi, stated that “reference to the Heraldry Act was just to assist the political party, it is not the basis on which we rejected the application.”
This statement was made in spite of the letter from the IEC which specifically listed the Heraldry Act is one of three grounds for the rejection of the application. The following is an excerpt of the letter: