Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is expected to make a proclamation that 1 November will be the day the local government elections will be held.

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8 September 2021

That would be the last possible date for the Electoral Commission of South Africa to hold the elections following a judgment by the Constitutional court. News24 is reporting that during a heated moment, while rubbishing allegations by opposition parties that the reopening, by the IEC, of the candidate registration process was to the benefit of the ANC, the party’s deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte inadvertently confirmed 1 November as the date to be proclaimed by Dlamini-Zuma.

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