Parliament Backs South Africa Election Body
Parliament says South Africa's electoral body is ready for 4 November, while 6.6 million extra ballots are still printing after a court ruling. The post Parliament Backs South Africa Election Body appeared first on The Rio Times .
Three parliamentary committees confirmed on Friday, 23 October, that South Africa's Electoral Commission (IEC) is prepared for the upcoming local elections on 4 November. The commission is still printing an additional 6.6 million ballot papers due to a Constitutional Court ruling that re-included 181 excluded African National Congress (ANC) candidates.
The printing of these extra ballots is expected to be completed by 30 October, five days before the election. Three parliamentary committees - Portfolio Committees on Home Affairs and Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, and the Select Committee on Security and Justice - inspected the IEC headquarters in Pretoria, expressing confidence in the commission's ability to conduct free and fair elections.
However, they acknowledged that problems could still arise. The election, scheduled for Wednesday, 4 November 2026, will see over 29 million registered voters casting their ballots for more than 10,526 council seats across 257 municipalities.
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