A registration flop means the ANC is now pinning its hopes on the electoral court and the Constitutional Court as 27 October approaches.
It also failed to register a candidate for ward three at Nkandla municipality.said it was “almost certain” that the party would not be able to “secure governance”’ of the municipalities, particularly in the Zululand district, if the appeal to the courts was not successful.for the date of the local government poll to be moved from 27 October to February 2022, citing restrictions posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We are really pinning our hopes on the work being done by the office of the secretary general, through the electoral and the Constitutional Court,”’ Ntuli said. Ntuli added that the party had “learnt some lessons” with regard to the process and called on ANC members to rally behind attempts by its national executive committee towards “fixing the challenges emanating from the registration.”
A number of eThekwini branches have held protests over their first-choice candidates not making the cut, while seven councillors charged with corruption in Durban — including former mayor— were culled from the list by the provincial list committee over the stand-aside rule.
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