The Constitutional Court says one of the reasons it dismissed the Electoral Commission of South Africa’s application to postpone local government elections to February 2022 was that it had to conduct polls within the constitutional time limits.
“The commission failed to establish that elections that are materially better in terms of freeness and fairness would be possible on or before February 28 2022.
He also said the principle that the law did not compel the impossible did not excuse the commission from complying with this constitutional duty. “Regular elections are the most important means by which citizens can hold their municipal representatives to account by removing indolent, incompetent or corrupt councillors.”
In giving reasons on setting aside the October 27 election day proclamation, Rogers said Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma knew that an inevitable consequence was that persons who had not by that time applied to register as voters would be unable to vote on election day.
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