South Africans will get to choose from a record 48 parties for the national elections on May 8.
The Independent Electoral Commissions’s chief electoral officer, Sy Mamabolo, announced on Wednesday that there are 19 more political parties contesting the 2019 national elections than there were in the last elections in 2014.
Mamabolo said the Northern Cape has the least number of political parties contesting, with just 21 vying for votes there.
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