The 2024 elections will be the first vote since 1994 that cannot be considered free and fair, writes Peter Bruce.
20 November 2022 - 00:01For some reason, probably sheer exhaustion, there’s been considerable relief at a proposal by home affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi that his amendments to the Electoral Act of 1998, already passed by the ANC voting fodder in the National Assembly, be amended further as the bill
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