Tlokwe ConCourt ruling could hurt KZN voters - analyst
5 August 2016
Durban – A Constitutional Court ruling on the by-elections in North West's Tlokwe Local Municipality could disenfranchise voters in by-elections to be held in KwaZulu-Natal soon, a political analyst said on Friday.
"This will mean that they won't be able to vote in the by-elections and in future," University of KwaZulu-Natal political science lecturer Zakhele Ndlovu said at the IEC's regional results centre in Durban.
IEC provincial chairperson Mawethu Mosery said the commission had received a report that several candidates had died in the run-up to the elections.
He said the candidates remained on the ballot papers and if they won the wards they contested, there would be by-elections. However, people's physical addresses would first have to be included on the voters' roll.