ANC didn’t miss deadline to submit candidate lists: Mabalula
The party missed the deadline, citing a technical glitch; however, the IEC has disputed this.
African National Congress Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula clarified why the party approached the Electoral Court regarding the rejection of their candidate lists for the 2026 Local Government Elections. The party claimed a technical glitch caused them to miss the deadline, but the IEC has rejected this claim. At the ANC Youth League’s 82nd Anniversary Celebration in Sun City, North West, Mbalula stated, "We are arguing a point of law in relation to what does that mean in relation to uploading people into the system of the IEC?"
He emphasized that the ANC did not ask the court or the IEC for favors, adding, "Let us read that case carefully, and therefore we are not asking the court to give us that, that is not true to us. Like others misinterpret us, the ANC missed the deadline. When you miss the deadline, is when you could not make it. We did not."
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