ANC top brass to meet over missed councillor candidate list deadline
ANC officials will be discussing missed councillor candidate deadline.
The African National Congress (ANC) has convened its top brass at the party's headquarters in Johannesburg to deliberate on the subsequent steps following the failure to submit the list of over 180 councillor candidates by the deadline. This missed deadline has resulted in the party losing an Electoral Court attempt to overturn the Independent Electoral Commission's (IEC) rejection to reinstate the candidates in six municipalities.
The ANC plans to appeal the issue in a higher court. Party President Cyril Ramaphosa revealed that the matter will be discussed during the meeting and subsequently at the National Working Committee meeting. Ramaphosa made these remarks to the SABC while attending the ANC Veterans League's Fundraising Golf Day event, which took place north of Johannesburg on Monday.
"That matter is ongoing, the ANC today is going to be discussing the matter more fully to see what the way forward is, and of course whenever these things happen we need to find why and how it happened and where accountability is required accountability will be there."
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